Hm... Tried changing that, but it didn't help.... On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> room == start is a comparison (check if room is equal to start - doesn't > make a whole lot of sense to be doing that here). The "room" variable name > doesn't exist in the current namespace, so it can't be compared to start. > It looks like you wanted room = start. > > On 10/2/08, nathan virgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Okay, I'm resurrecting this project. I did a little more work on it then >> what you see here, but that ended up getting accidentally deleted, and I >> haven't done anything with Python since. >> >> I'm running into one problem already, and I haven't really added any extra >> code. In the content (at this point, the rooms still have Bob's >> descriptions), the very first line of actual code (third line in the >> program) is returning an error. >> >> Offending code: >> >> # Content >> # retrieve data for current room >> room == start >> while true: >> if room == start: >> desc = "Ahead of you, you see a chasm." >> ques = "Do you wish to try jumping over it? Y/N" >> destY = 2 >> destN = 3 >> >> Error: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "samplegame.py", line 3, in <module> >> room == start >> NameError: name 'room' is not defined >> >> >> What's going on here? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> >
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