weird Character/Lint error[solved]

[Scribbles]

So I'm getting a weird error when I run Lint. I do not get an error within the game though and everything is running as expected so I'm not sure why it's acting this way?

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game/ch01.rpy:27 Could not evaluate 'lucy' in the who part of a say statement.
Perhaps you forgot to define a character?

I've defined the characters:

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default lucy = Character("Lucy")
default sam = Character("Sam")
default axel = Character("Axel")

and within the game their names pop up when they're supposed to so I'm not sure why Lint is going crazy flagging them all? Is this a weird bug or should I define the characters vs using default? (I like to check Lint to look at my word count as I write which is why I'm running it.)

[Milkymalk]

Did you by chance use "lucy" as a variable name somewhere else? Maybe as an image?

[Scribbles]

Did you by chance use "lucy" as a variable name somewhere else? Maybe as an image?

I did, but when I changed it to

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default l = Character("Lucy")

I still get the same error (just this time is says l isn't defined....?

[IrinaLazareva]

default lucy = Character("Lucy")

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define lucy = Character("Lucy")

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... er-objects

[Scribbles]

default lucy = Character("Lucy")

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define lucy = Character("Lucy")

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... er-objects

I am aware of using define, I just thought it was supposed to be inferior to default? Is that only for other variables maybe? It's strange that it isn't crashing the game, and it's still using the name tags in the textbox but pops up in lint... *sigh* I will never get the hang of coding

[IrinaLazareva]

about difference between define and default (and init):
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/python.h ... -statement

[Milkymalk]

I can't really see why one works and the other one doesn't, at least not from that description alone.

"define" sets a variable at init time.

"default" sets a variable when the game starts.

Both happens before any "say" statements.

[Scribbles]

I can't really see why one works and the other one doesn't, at least not from that description alone.

"define" sets a variable at init time.

"default" sets a variable when the game starts.

Both happens before any "say" statements.

I'm not sure either, but using define did stop the lint error, maybe it's a specific issue with lint (since the game ran fine and it still picked up on the names)

[IrinaLazareva]

Character() is one of oldest functions of Ren'py. I suspect, it is constructed on the elements, working at a init stage only... Perhaps..

[Milkymalk]

That might be the reson. The "config" variables can also only be changed during init.