Unexpected output when diplaying a string : Solved

[eezergoode]

I'm basically new to Ren'Py and python. Havent done any type of coding or programming since the days of the Commodore 64. I'm trying to get back into things, and have been doing okay so far until now. I've had a lot of errors, but have been able to figure them out with the documentation of a simple search or tow.

I'm suddenly getting some strange output when trying to display some text ,including string variable, that just popped up suddenly. This was working fine earlier today. Unless I did something unknowingly, I didn't change anything in the code, although I did make a small change, then restored it to the previous state.

I'm basically trying to display the day, time, current location, and current amount of cash in a small frame at the top of the screen.

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    frame:
        xpos 0 ypos 0
        xminimum 1280
        yminimum 35
        ymaximum 35
        text "[output]             Cash $:[MCCash]" xalign 0.5

If I go into the dev console and print output, it displays correctly, but in the game, it shows like this



Any ideas why the location is now showing up in brackets, with single quotes and the lowercase u in front?

[isobellesophia]

I'm basically new to Ren'Py and python. Havent done any type of coding or programming since the days of the Commodore 64. I'm trying to get back into things, and have been doing okay so far until now. I've had a lot of errors, but have been able to figure them out with the documentation of a simple search or tow.

I'm suddenly getting some strange output when trying to display some text ,including string variable, that just popped up suddenly. This was working fine earlier today. Unless I did something unknowingly, I didn't change anything in the code, although I did make a small change, then restored it to the previous state.

I'm basically trying to display the day, time, current location, and current amount of cash in a small frame at the top of the screen.

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    frame:
        xpos 0 ypos 0
        xminimum 1280
        yminimum 35
        ymaximum 35
        text "[output]             Cash $:[MCCash]" xalign 0.5

If I go into the dev console and print output, it displays correctly, but in the game, it shows like this



Any ideas why the location is now showing up in brackets, with single quotes and the lowercase u in front?

How about you try when you separate both like..

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text "[output]"xalign 0.0 xpos 300
text "Cash $:" xalign 0.5 xpos 600
text "[MCCash]" xpos 610

Sorry about the xaligns, just a example if the brakets were gone, i did this on purpose, seperating them would be better.

[eezergoode]

Thank you. That didn't work, but it did help me narrow it down. Turns out I had unnecessary brackets elsewhere when I was creating the output string.