'End of statement expected' pyCharm error

Question

I have a very simple method, which takes a Boolean parameter and changes a global one to the negated value of the parameter. However, using the Pycharm IDE, it returns an error in the snippet global state = not x

state = False

def change_state(x):
    global state = not x

What does this error mean? What would be the correct form of the code?

Answer 1

The problem is that the assignment of the value of the global variable is on the same line.

The right thing would be:

state = False

def change_state(x):
    global state
    state = not x
    print(state)

change_state(state)

Upshot:

True