> Can anyone tell me how to fix the errors I am getting if possible? I'm quite
> new and so confused...
You're not telling us what the errors are. If you'd like us help to debug your
program, best is to provide information about how you run it, and what output
you're getting. Not just the program (sure, we can all copy-paste the program
and run it, but we're not all going to do that). Just copy-paste the error
message along with the rest of the email a next time.
Python is pretty verbose and clear with its error messages; once you learn to
read the traceback (bottom-up), you can often figure out what's wrong: read the
exact error message and line number, and try to understand why you get that
message.
That said, I can see one glaring error when skimming through your code (unless
I'm horribly misreading things):
> import random
> def main():
> print
>
> playerOne, playerTwo = inputNames(playerOne, PlayerTwo)
>
> while endProgram == 'no':
You use endProgram to compare with 'no' here, but
>
> endProgram == no
you only set the variable here.
This is programming 101 (not even Python specific): declare (& set) your
variables before you use them (in comparisons, function calls, etc).
Also:
> playerOne = 'NO NAME'
> playerTwo = 'NO NAME'
are set here to 'NO NAME' (some default value), but *before* that, you assign
real names. Since the default assignment is after the proper assignment, you
end up with 'NO NAME' for both players (except that your program currently
crashes at the while statement).
Finally:
>
> also how do I display the winner under the displayInfo function?
If you want to do that, you'll have to feed the displayInfo() function the name
of the winner as an argument.
What you do below in the second line, is assign the displayInfo function to
winnerName. Instead, you'll have to call that function, with the winnerName as
as argument (you're doing this correctly before, so it's somewhat odd you're
doing it wrong here).
> winnerName = rollDice(p1number, p2number, playerOne, playerTwo,
> winnerName)
> winnerName = displayInfo
All in all, I can see why you're "so confused". Do you understand what you're
doing; specifically, do you understand the flow of the program? Or did you just
copy-paste something and made a few edits, then gave it a try?
Perhaps you should take a step back, start even a bit smaller (single function
programs), read a few other tutorials, then come back to this program.
You're most welcome to ask questions here, but looking through your code,
there's a few generic programming mistakes here that you should learn about
first.
Good luck,
Evert
> endProgram = raw_input('Do you want to end program? (Enter yes or
> no): ')
>
> def inputNames(playerOne, PlayerTwo):
>
> p1name = raw_input("Enter your name.")
> p2name = raw_input("Enter your name.")
> return playerOne, playerTwo
>
> def random(winnerName):
>
> p1number = random.randint(1, 6)
> p2number = random.randint(1, 6)
>
> if p1number > p2number:
> playerOne = winnerName
> elif p1number < p2number:
> playerTwo = winnerName
> else p1number == p2number:
> playerOne, playerTwo = winnerName
>
> def displayInfo():
>
> #how do I display winner?
>
> main()
>
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