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

1) you're not returning the value from the function 2) global variables are best changed outside of functions - outside of the function, set the variable equal to whatever the function returns or - if you MUST do it inside the function, you want to declare it to be global at the beginning of the function.

def Correct(totalpoints):
    return totalpoints += 1

......

if NBAANSWER == NBA2[NBAQues]:
    print "Correct!"
    totalpoints = Correct(totalPoints)
    print "You have ", totalpoints, "points"