I have a list of one or more items being returned back to my application as 
a response from a call to an API. In this particular part of the process 
depending on the data keys selected by the user, if any some data fields 
will be formatted automatically. When that happens I need to add the keys 
to those new automatically-generated fields to the list of data keys 
originally entered by the user. In the case where there's only one item 
being returned, this isn't a problem, but when I get back multiple objects 
in my response I only want to add the new data field keys to the display 
key list once. The flag will be initialized to false at the beginning of 
the process which processes all of the responses. So the only way I could 
think of to do this would be to setup some kind of global variable that can 
be checked and when set to "false" then and only then update the display 
key list with the keys to the new data fields. Then also at the same time 
set the flag to "true", so the update doesn't happen again for each and 
every subsequent item in the list of response objects. At least not until 
the next request is sent and its response is being processed.  

So what are my options for creating a global Boolean variable(or any other 
global variable type for that matter), for accomplishing the above task?

So far I've tried using a "global" keyword when setting up a variable, as 
well as declaring a variable in a globalvars.py file, importing the 
file and trying to reference it something like this:

globalvars.display_key_list_updated = True or False

But I keep getting errors of one sort or another with each way I've tried 
so far (mostly exceptions.NameError).

This is my first attempt at trying to setup and use some kind of a global 
variable, so its kind of frustrating, and I'm probably making it harder 
than it is, but my lack of experience is getting in the way. 

Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated.

Henry

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