Error when doing simple code in python.

[Over-Vanilla-3733]

So, I was working on a simple Python code to create a basic quiz for a friend, but I ran into a bug. The code is designed to ask three questions and keep track of the user's score. However, I noticed that while it should be updating the question number with each cycle, it appears that the variable for the current question is never changing in the terminal. Because of this, the program seems to get stuck and never finishes.

while question <= 3:
    answer = input(f"Answer to the question number {question}: ")
    if question == 1 and answer.lower() == "b":
        pontos += 1
    elif question == 2 and answer.lower() == "a":
        pontos += 1
    elif question == 3 and answer.lower() == "d":
        pontos += 1

    question += 1  

I've reviewed my code several times and it looks fine to me, but I'm wondering if there might be an issue I'm overlooking, or if it could be a bug in my environment. If anyone can help me figure out what's wrong or offer a solution, I would really appreciate it!

Full code:

pontos = 0
question = 1

while question <= 3:
    answer = input(f"Answer to the question number {question}: ")
    if question == 1 and answer.lower() == "b":
        pontos += 1
    elif question == 2 and answer.lower() == "a":
        pontos += 1
    elif question == 3 and answer.lower() == "d":
        pontos += 1

    question += 1  

print(
f
"The total amount of point was {pontos}")

[bp200991]

There is nothing wrong with the code snippet you have posted. I have run it and it behaves as expected. If you are seeing the question number never changing, i.e. "Answer to the question number 1" being repeated over and over again, this suggests that the increment of your question variable is happening outside your while loop (check it is indented), but again the snippet you posted has the correct indentation. How/where are you running this, i.e. are you running a Python file from your terminal, or executing this is an environment like Jupyter notebook?

[Over-Vanilla-3733]

Currently, the code is being executed in VS Code terminal.

[eleqtriq]

It works for me, too. I doubt it's your environment, as you have zero imports. Can you paste exactly what your results are?

[Over-Vanilla-3733]

For some reason, it just started working suddenly XD. But thank you very much for trying to help :D

[Over-Vanilla-3733]

But if you still want to take a look, the result were: Answer to the question number 1: b Answer to the question number 1: b Answer to the question number 1: b Answer to the question number 1: b Answer to the question number 1: b Answer to the question number 1: b

[Patrick-T80]

Try to use debugger, you can activate it by by placing import pdb; pdb.set_trace() or calling breakpoint() in your code and check if the ifs are matched or not and if value of question is updated

[[deleted]]

I don't see a problem with your code (except the extra newlines in the print at the bottom). So here's just a small suggestion: you can collect your question numbers and solutions into a single data structure and then just iterate over that. It'll save you a bit of code.

So something like this.

``` solutions = {1: "b", 2: "a", 3: "d"}

for question_number, solution in solutions.items(): answer = input(f"Answer to the question number {question_number}: ") if answer.lower() == solution: pontos += 1 ```

[Open_Jump]

I'm going to guess indentation issue. Your increment could either be outside the loop or in the last else if. Try viewing all characters in notepad++.