One of the first "working" pieces of code I wrote in python for discord ft. global variables

First Discord Command

    async def cmd_weather(self, channel, author):
        import json
        from array import array
        import requests
        from collections import OrderedDict
        from pprint import pprint
        api_key = "&APPID=507e30d896f751513350c41899382d89"
        city_name_url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q="
        units = "&units=metric"
        global general_info
        general_info = {
            "Humidity (%)": 0,
            "Pressure": 0,
            "Temperature(C)": 0,
            "Max. Temp.(C)": 0,
            "Min. Temp.(C)": 0
            }

        def connectapi():
            global parsed
            global data
            global urlrequest
            urlrequest = city_name_url + str_city_input + units + api_key
            response = requests.get(urlrequest)
            content = json.loads(response.text)


            data = json.loads(content.decode('utf8'), object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
            parsed = json.dumps(data, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
            return content

        def find_data():

            global country_name
            global city_name
            global general_info
            global weather_description
            global formatted_general_info
            city_name = data['name']
            country_name = str(data['sys']['country'])
            for key, value in data['main'].items():
               if key == "humidity":
                    general_info['Humidity (%)'] = value
               elif key == "pressure":
                   general_info['Pressure'] = value
               elif key == "temp":
                   general_info['Temperature(C)'] = value
               elif key == "temp_max":
                   general_info['Max. Temp.(C)'] = value
               elif key == "temp_min":
                   general_info['Min. Temp.(C)'] = value
               else:
                   continue

        def formatlines():
            global innerlines
            global formatted_general_info
            innerlines = '\n'.join('%s:%s' % (k, v) for k, v in general_info.items())
            formatted_general_info = (str(innerlines).replace("{", "").replace("}", ""))
            return """      \
\t\t        %s
\t\t        """ % formatted_general_info
        await self.send_typing(channel)
        await self.safe_send_message(channel, """Weather Lookup\n\nEnter the name of the city that you want
to look at the weather details of.""", expire_in=30)
        while True:

            global city_input
            global str_city_input
            city_input = await self.wait_for_message(20, author=author, channel=channel)
            if not city_input:
                return Response("There was no response from "+ str(author) +".",
                                delete_after=60)
            elif city_input.content.startswith(self.config.command_prefix) or \
                    city_input.content.lower().startswith('exit'):
                break
            else:
                str_city_input = city_input.content.strip()
                await self.safe_send_message(channel, connectapi())

            try:
                if 'name' in data:
                    find_data()
                    await self.send_typing(channel)
                    await self.safe_send_message(channel,"\n%r in %r:\n\nGeneral Info:" % (city_name, country_name))
                    await self.safe_send_message(channel, formatlines())
                    break
                else:
                    await self.safe_send_message(channel, "Something went wrong, would you like to try again?")
                    continue
            except Exception as e:
                raise exceptions.CommandError(e, expire_in=20)