I have this function that is supposed to count points but it doesn't add them

Question

I have this function that is supposed to count points but it doesn\'t add them:

def Correct(totalPoints):
    print \"Correct\"
    totalPoints = totalPoints+1
          


        

Answer 1

You need your Correct function to return something. Right now, you're printing a result and changing the totalPoints local variable (which got copied in when passed as an argument to the function). When you make that change to totalPoints inside of the Correct function, it's only changing the local, copies variable, not the one that was passed in.

Try this instead:

def Correct(totalPoints):
    print "Correct"
    totalPoints = totalPoints+1
    print "You have", totalPoints,"points"
    return totalPoints

Now that it's returning the totalPoints, that variable can be brought back out to your regular program.