Ren'Py ignores my variables! *problem solved*

[ushida_hikaru16]

My question is about python ($) choice variables in Ren'Py.

I want to have the player character react differently at different parts of the story depending on which selection is chosen in the first menu of the game.

This is the first menu, along with the variable I want to declare:

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label reaction:
    $ angry_rage_child = False
    
    menu:
        "...Come again?":
            i "I'm sorry, Mom...could you repeat that please?"
            $ angry_rage_child == False
            jump trip_time
        
        "... ... ...wut??":
            $ angry_rage_child == False
            jump dumbfounded
        
        "NO!!!!!!! DX":
            $ angry_rage_child == True
            jump rage

I declared the variable True for the final selection, however, later on when I call where I want the change to be implemented -

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if angry_rage_child == True :
    jump plot
if angry_rage_child == False :
    jump shikata_ga_nai

- Ren'Py ignores it completely and simply continues through to the next label, even though the angry main character scenario was selected back in the first menu!!

What am I doing wrong? Does calling the variable have to be part of a new menu or something? I don't understand why it won't jump to the part of the script I want it to based on the user's selection. It's getting on my nerve.

So...help? Someone?

[Camille]

Should be like this:

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label reaction:
    $ angry_rage_child = False
    
    menu:
        "...Come again?":
            i "I\'m sorry, Mom...could you repeat that please?"
            $ angry_rage_child = False
            jump trip_time
        
        "... ... ...wut??":
            $ angry_rage_child = False
            jump dumbfounded
        
        "NO!!!!!!! DX":
            $ angry_rage_child = True
            jump rage

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if angry_rage_child == True:
    jump plot
elif angry_rage_child == False:
    jump shikata_ga_nai

Basically, just some syntax mistakes. When you're setting the variables in your labels, you only use one = sign.

[ushida_hikaru16]

Oh, it's an else/if...yikes. I would have never known that. I also would have never known to use only one "=" initially. Okay.

Thanks! That was a big help. I'm obviously a newbie, so still learning (and the little bit of programming knowledge I have is in C++, not Python... >///<).

Thanks again. : )

[scorlight]

Wow, thanks a lot! I have the same problem like her too ^^

[trooper6]

Python/Renpy does this the same way as Java does it, "=" is used to assign, "==" is used to check equivalency.

So, for me, in my mind, when I type up a line, this is what I say in my head:

a = "crazy" (a is assigned the value of "crazy")
a == "crazy" (a is the same as "crazy")