I am using if else block for conditioning the execution as follows:

is_initialized = False
def process_interaction(prompt, is_initialized):
  # No need for global flag

  if is_initialized == False:
    # Assume this function extracts and processes the URL
    url = prompt
    print("Up....")
    site_id = get_sharepoint_site_id(hostname, site_path)
    content = fetch_file_content(token, site_id, extract_file_path(url))
    response = processQuery(content, query=None, isStart=False)
    st.write("Document is inserted..")
    is_initialized = True
  else:
    # Assume this is when isStarted is True and you process the query
    query = prompt
    print("Lower if...")
    response = processQuery(content="content", query=query, isStart=True)
    st.write(response)

and i am calling this function like this:

with st.chat_message("assistant", avatar=BOT_AVATAR):
        message_placeholder = st.empty()
        response = process_interaction(prompt, is_initialized)

as is_initialized is set to True in the first run then it should run the else block but everytime it is running the if block.

I have tried to change the variable in the if block but it is always running the if block and not the else block.

I am new to python any help will be highly appreciable.