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What do the global and nonlocal keywords do?

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Explain scope keywords.

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global lets a function rebind a module-level variable; nonlocal lets a nested function rebind a variable in the enclosing (non-global) scope. Without them, assignment inside a function creates a new local variable.

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PYnonlocal mutable closure counter; global rebind
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