Off topic:accessing variable value outside the function

Question

[mdsiddra]

I am working with certain codes in python and I wanted to know if a certain value of a variable can be accesssed outside the function without explicitly declaring it a global variable. for example:

I was using this:

def func1():
    v1 = "value1"
    return v1
    print ("This is the first function")

def func2():
    v2 = "value2"
    func1()
    print ("This is the second function")

fo = input ("Enter 1/2\n")
if fo == '1':
    func1()
elif fo == '2':
    func2()
else:
    print ("invalid")
print (v1)

It results me this error:

    print (v1)
NameError: name 'v1' is not defined

Can I use this value of 'v1' variable outside the function without defining it to b 'global'??