pandasql does not work in a function

Hi, I made a function like the one below to query a panda dataframe but it tells me ‘Exception: UNECE_csv not found’. Cannot understand where is the prob since if I run the same scripts outside the function it works perfectly.

def import_csv_and_query():

filepath='C:\\DATA\\Work\\.....csv
import pandas as pd
from pandasql import sqldf
UNECE_csv=pd.read_csv(filepath,dtype=object,na_filter=False)
q="""

MY LONG QUERY
"""

UNECE_clean=sqldf(q, globals())

UNECE_colums=UNECE_clean.columns.tolist()
UNECE_array=UNECE_clean.values.tolist()
UNECE=[UNECE_colums]+UNECE_array   
return UNECE

[stonebig]

target variable are the one you want to query. Example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pandasql import sqldf
global_df= pd.DataFrame({ 'A' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32'),
                     'B' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32')})
def rien(q, ext_df):
    local_df= pd.DataFrame({ 'B' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32'),
                     'D' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(0, 888, 2)),dtype='float32')})
    return sqldf(q, {'ext_df':ext_df, 'local_df':local_df})

rien("select * FROM ext_df INNER JOIN local_df on ext_df.B=local_df.B limit 3", global_df) 

[TheGlobalist]

target variable are the one you want to query. Example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from pandasql import sqldf
global_df= pd.DataFrame({ 'A' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32'),
                     'B' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32')})
def rien(q, ext_df):
    local_df= pd.DataFrame({ 'B' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(888)),dtype='float32'),
                     'D' : pd.Series(1,index=list(range(0, 888, 2)),dtype='float32')})
    return sqldf(q, {'ext_df':ext_df, 'local_df':local_df})

rien("select * FROM ext_df INNER JOIN local_df on ext_df.B=local_df.B limit 3", global_df) 

sorry for posting on a 4 year old issue, but just wanted to highlight that the proposed solution also worked for me using Sanic. Just wanted to leave this here so that others could know it