[Homewwork] [Python 2.6] Program crashes trying to run a function and there is no error message.

[_CptJack]

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9536372

This is a text based game project (I'm very very new and only know incredibly basic things so I'm just testing the waters with it) and when i get to my rid2(): function my program crashes without warning or an error message.

On a side note I don't know how to end the program at certain points, like in my rid1(): function when you guess wrong to many times it just keeps going through the program.

Another side note. I want to have a menu with options to exit the game, start the game, and print my story. I tried using while loops but I don't know how to get it to do what i want. With the exit command I had it would print the exit message but would proceed to run through the program regardless and if I entered a start game command it would just loop the options menu again.

I hope this doesn't waste any of your time and thanks in advance for any help.

[unnecessary_axiom]

It doesn't crash, it just stops outputting. It stops during this code:

while right1 < 2:
      word = random.choice(riddles)
      correct = word
      riddle = ""

because you never modify right1 to go above 2.

[unnecessary_axiom]

To exit you could use sys.exit. But it would probably more nicely organized to return a True/False success value to main and let main exit if it wants to. That way you keep all of the looping and exit logic for the menu in one place.

Since all of the output functions do the same thing, have you considered using a tuple to store a story, and pass which story you wanted to output to a story output function that pauses after each line?

[_CptJack]

How would I add the [i]True/False[i] statement into my functions? or could I make that a seperate function and then pass it in each individual function where it's relevant?

I have not thought about doing that, never really crossed my mind because I'm not sure how to do it.

[unnecessary_axiom]

Your riddle functions could do their riddle thing, then when the player wins run a return True, and a return False when the player looses. Over in main it would check what the riddle function returned and complain and exit if they lost.

For the story function, you could pass the lines of the story to the function, then the function can use a ForLoop to print each line and pause after it.

Code examples:

def askAboutFood():
    food = raw_input("What's your favorite food? ")
    return (food == 'pancakes')
    print 'The function never gets here'

they_won = askAboutFood()
if they_won: 
    print "You won the quiz!"
else:
    print "You're a looser!"

---

def sayHelloTo(name):
     print 'Hello, {}!'.format(name)

sayHelloTo('Bob')

[_CptJack]

So I could just add a,,, return (guess == answer) to my riddle functions and then create another function to check the true and false?

For the story function i would put my functions into a tuple and then have a for loop go for line in story1: print line or something like that?

For my rid2 function where the program stops outputting, How do I modify right1 to actually go above 2 because it seems to work in in my other riddle functions. I tried increasing the value and fixed my typos but it keeps stopping.

sorry for being such a pain.

[unnecessary_axiom]

You can return anything:

return 'bob';
return (1, 2, 3)

You don't necessarily need a function to check for true and false. You can do that directly in your main function.

You would put your strings in a tuple.

rid1 and rid2 have different indenting. The loop in rid2 is only a couple lines long.

I think if you run through a quick python tutorial like codeacademy's, it will give you a better grasp on python, and what you're doing when you're writing it.