So I have a function that takes two dictionaries, adds them together.

```
from collections import Counter

def ReportTwoAddedDictionaries(DictOne,DictTwo):

    Dict1 = Counter(DictOne)
    Dict2 = Counter(DictTwo)
    DictTotal = Dict1 + Dict2

    print DictTotal

    DictTotal = dict(DictTotal)
    print DictTotal
    return DictTotal

```

When I run the function:

```
ReportTwoAddedDictionaries(FreePoints,FlyPoints)

```

it prints out DictTotal correctly (as it is told to do inside the function). However, when I try outside of the function, after running it, it prints empty

```
print DictTotal

```

Any idea why DictTotal is returning empty, but prints fine from within the function?
Thank you.