Defining Statements

[dIgItayel]

Hi guys~
This is a follow up on my post about expected statements. I'm still having the same problem, but this time, instead of an expected statement error, I get an error saying that a statement is undefined.

Error Message:

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While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 190, in script
    menu:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 211, in <module>
    "Are you his guardian?" if spirit == True:
NameError: name 'spirit' is not defined

Where I think I defined "spirit"

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"Are you a spirit?":
            $ spirit = True
            "So, Sera...You're a spirit, right?"
            
            jump spirit_sera

(This is part of a menu by the way)

The menu where the error occurs:

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  menu:
        "What do you want to talk about?"
        
        "Where do you guys live?":
            pn "So do you guys live close to the campus?"
            s "Oh! We live together, actually. We're roommates! We live about a mile off campus in this little rental house."
            n "Living with Sera is actually awful. Please save me."
            s "Oh shut up, you know you looooove me!"
            n "A-As if!"
            jump finding_out
            
        "Are you two dating?":
            pn "So, uh, are you two...dating?"
            n "W-WHAAAAT?!"
            s "Nonononononono! We're not dating!"
            n "E-Ew. No."
            s "Besides, I'm like, the most gay person ever. Like, ever. Feel free to call me the Ultimate Gay. And Naois here is about as straight as a circle."
            n "S-Sera!"
            s "Oh, I'm sorrrrrry. You're sensitive~ Hehehe"
            jump finding_out
            
        "Are you his guardian?" if spirit == True:
            pn "Are you Naois' Guardian?"
            jump naois_guardian

Any help is appreciated

[SuperbowserX]

If it's part of a menu, then it's possible that line of code will never have ran by the time you get to that evaluation.

So what you should do is set that variable to false at the top of your script. That way, even if you never got to that point where it was true, it will still be defined.

[dIgItayel]

If it's part of a menu, then it's possible that line of code will never have ran by the time you get to that evaluation.

So what you should do is set that variable to false at the top of your script. That way, even if you never got to that point where it was true, it will still be defined.

So at the top I'd just put spirit = false? Or is it something else?

[SuperbowserX]

Right after your start label, put in this line of code:

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$ spirit = False

That way, the variable you are evaluating will not be undefined in the event that it never becomes true.

[dIgItayel]

Right after your start label, put in this line of code:

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$ spirit = False

That way, the variable you are evaluating will not be undefined in the event that it never becomes true.

I still got this error:

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While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 191, in script
    menu:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 212, in <module>
    "Are you his guardian?" if spirit == True:
NameError: name 'spirit' is not defined

[SuperbowserX]

change

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"Are you his guardian?" if spirit == True:

to

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"Are you his guardian?" if spirit:

(ignore this next sentence if you're not programming familiar) You don't need that operator for boolean evaluations. Simply saying if boolean is basically telling it "if this boolean is true".

[trooper6]

Also best practices is to define your variables using the default statement outside of a block. Like so:

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default spirit = False

label start:
    "Blah blah"