'Local variable gold referenced before assignment'

[keen swift]

basically for homework i've had to make this text based adventure game and for some reason it comes up with the error in the image and i barely code so idk what to do. if you need me to put anymore of the code just say

[dusk sinew]

Did you initialize the variable gold 🤔

[keen swift]

i have no clue what that means sorry

i'll send a screenshot of the relevant bit

[dusk sinew]

Like set it to a value?

[keen swift]

yeah

here

[median lichen]

You redefined gold inside the function. If you want to assign to a global variable from within a function you've gotta add global gold inside your function.

[keen swift]

ohh thanks for the help big man 🙏

would i add that to the first or second gold?

[median lichen]

That's a line all to itself. Typical to put the global variable lines at the beginning of the function

def my_function():
    global some_variable
    some_variable = "some value"

[keen swift]

aight okay thanks, i'll do that now

def gold():
global gold
gold = int(10)

would that be okay?

or does the function thing need to be something different>

[dusk sinew]

I think name of function should be different

But i think they meant to add global gold to your existing function

[keen swift]

oh okay i'll plug that in

wait and every time i use gold do i use the function name or the variable name?

[median lichen]

Gold is a variable. If you want the value of the variable use the variable name. If you want to use the function use the function name.

[keen swift]

ok, thanks big dog

so for the line that's breaking everything i'd use global gold, right?

[median lichen]

Try it and see

[keen swift]

it says invalid syntax

[median lichen]

Please show the code that gives the error

[median lichen]

The line with the global keyword needs to be exactly how I showed. You do not use the global keyword any other way.

It happens once in the function to tell the Python interpreter that your function will need to use that global variable at some point.

[keen swift]

ohhh sorry yeah i get what you mean now