How to access a variable declared inside IF statement outside IF statement in Python

Solution

@app.route('/ML', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def index():
  global searchData
  if request.method == "POST":
        request_data = json.loads(request.data)
        searchData = (request_data['content'])
        return jsonify(searchData)
  mycursor = mydb.cursor(dictionary=True)
  query = "SELECT * FROM COMPANY WHERE COMPANY_NAME LIKE %s LIMIT 20;"
  mycursor.execute(query,("%" + searchData + "%",))
  myresult = mycursor.fetchall()

  company = []
  content = {}

  for result in myresult:
     content ={'COMPANY_NAME':result['COMPANY_NAME'],}
     company.append(content)
     content = {}
  return jsonify(company)