Problem with $if flags [SOLVED! THANKS]

[dreamy]

Hi! I just started implementing if flags in my game but I seem to have run into a problem. I first put the flag names over here like this:

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    $ magic = False
    $ thief = False

    show black

And one of the flags should get implemented in this menu choice:

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menu:
    "Go outside":
        jump bobble
        
    "Look around":
        jump orb
label orb:
    $ magic = True
    "This shop's concept is actually interesting yet there are so many things questionable here."

And that flag came into play here:

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    if magic:
        "It came from...Rina's other bag. She left it on the table."
    else:
        "I must have imagined it."

However, when I started the game, the following error occurred:

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1358, in script
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1358, in python
NameError: name 'magic' is not defined

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "C:\Users\Acer\Documents\renpy-6.16.5-sdk\renpy\execution.py", line 288, in run
    node.execute()
  File "C:\Users\Acer\Documents\renpy-6.16.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1486, in execute
    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
  File "C:\Users\Acer\Documents\renpy-6.16.5-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1342, in py_eval
    return eval(py_compile(source, 'eval'), globals, locals)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1358, in <module>
    if magic:
NameError: name 'magic' is not defined

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.16.5.525
Chrysanthemum Tea 0.0

I'm not sure what the error is . Does somebody happen to know what I should do?

[Exiscoming]

Right now when you jump to label orb you say that magic is True.
So the if statement should be

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 if magic == True:
        "It came from...Rina's other bag. She left it on the table."
    else:
        "I must have imagined it."

I'm only a starter when it comes to coding myself, so this might not be the awnser you were looking for. Lemme know if it helped or not.

Edit:

magic = True (Here you say that magic becomes True)
magic == True (Here you say that magic is True)

[nyaatrap]

I just started implementing if flags in my game

Then the first advice is don't use save data. There's no save data compatibility.

[dreamy]

Wow! It worked now. Thank you so much!

[Kate]

I just started implementing if flags in my game

Then the first advice is don't use save data. There's no save data compatibility.

Wait, what? Save data and flags won't work? Can you explain that? I didn't think that was a problem...

[philat]

Save files from before you initialized the variables won't work. Save files generated after you changed the script work fine.