Setting variable as another variable (solved)

[Smaymay]

Hi there, I'm coding the point system at the moment to determine which character the player will end up with. Of course, there are also scenes for the possibility that you end up with a tie. The system works fine at the moment except for one tiny detail.

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if tiedBetweenTwo == True:
        show choiceOverlay
        menu:
            "[tiedBoy1]":
                hide choiceOverlay
                $ boyChoice = "[tiedBoy1]"
                $ renpy.fix_rollback()
                MC "[tiedBoy1]?"
                MC "Of course!"
            "[tiedBoy2]":
                hide choiceOverlay
                $ boyChoice = "[tiedBoy2]"
                $ renpy.fix_rollback()
                MC "[tiedBoy2]?"
                MC "Of course!"

The game will fill in the right name for those tiedBoy variables used in the dialogue. But when I try to use the boyChoice variable...

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MC "[boyChoice], you will be mine!"

This will just print out [boyChoice] instead of the name set to one of the tiedBoy variables.

I was wondering if it's possible at all to set a variable as another variable. But this could be a syntax error on my part after all! Thanks in advance

[philat]

$ boyChoice = tiedBoy1

[Smaymay]

@philat

Oh damn. It works haha. I feel so dumb. Thanks for the quick reply. Learned something new today ^^

[philat]

No problem. Interpolation (in whatever form you may come across, .format() or % or []) is only necessarily when you want to put the variable in a STRING. In all other contexts, it's just the variable name.