How to use a label like a function?

[henvu50]

I'm trying to make a function, but I get an error: "testFunction is not defined"

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label testFunction(val):
  if val = "one":
    return("hello")
  else:
    return("okay")

screen test:
 vbox:
  # should get set to a value of string "okay"
  $ globalVariable = testFunction("two") 

[Remix]

In your use case it would be better to just use a Python function:

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init python:
    def testFunction(val):
        if val = "one":
            return "hello"
        else:
            return "okay"

screen test:
 vbox:
  # should get set to a value of string "okay"
  $ globalVariable = testFunction("two") 

A label as control flow like that would likely be ran using renpy.run( renpy.call( "label" ) ) or through an Action of a button using Call( "label" )

[henvu50]

Okay, I switched to python function, but the string value returned from the function always results in the name of the function, not the actual return value. Do you know why it's doing that?

Instead of returning "wtf", it returns the name of the function:

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<function testFunc at 0x08390938>

It doesn't return the actual string of "wtf".

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screen testScreen:
 vbox:
   $ globalVariable = testFunc(87)
   
   textButton "[globalVariable]":
     action Return(1)

init python:
    def testFunc(value):
        return("wtf")
        

The textbutton name only shows the name of the function: <function testFunc at 0x08390938> ... not the string "wtf".

[henvu50]

The following code:

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$ globalVariable = testFunc(87)

results in the error:

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TypeError: testFunc() takes no arguments (1 given)

It seems I can't have the word "return" in a function name, so this is solved.

[henvu50]

Everything is working now. I had two minor errors at the same time.

I need coffee!

Thanks for your help.