{"id":27494,"date":"2022-12-24T18:36:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accepting-only-letters-as-input-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T13:06:29","slug":"solved-accepting-only-letters-as-input-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accepting-only-letters-as-input-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Accepting only letters as input [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-36812677\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"36812677\" data-parentid=\"36812523\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The answer for the first problem:<\/p>\n<p>You never defined first_name <em>outside<\/em> of <code>Players_input<\/code>. This value is just stored inside the function, and get&#8217;s deleted afterwards. (more about this in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/python-textbok.readthedocs.org\/en\/1.0\/Variables_and_Scope.html\">the link added by gjttt1<\/a>)<br \/>\nThere are two ways to solve this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You could make first_name global. But this is a bad style, so I wouldn&#8217;t use this option. You would add <code>global first_name<\/code> at some point in <code>Players_input<\/code>, before it is written to (so either before or directly after the first print call)<\/li>\n<li>You could return first_name, this is the preferred way. Add a <code>return first_name<\/code> at the end of <code>Players_input<\/code>, and replace <code>Players_input()<\/code> with <code>first_name = Players_input()<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The answer to the second problem:<\/p>\n<p>Just use this function instead of <code>int(input())<\/code> (replace this line with <code>int_input()<\/code>):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang-py prettyprint-override\"><code>def int_input(prompt=\"\", error_message=\"You didn't enter an integer!\"):\n    while True:  # repeat this until the function returns\n        inp = input(prompt)  # get the input after autputting the prompt.\n        try:  # Try to...\n            return int(inp)  # turn it into an integer. If it works, return it.\n        except ValueError:  # If it didn't work, it raised a ValueError. In this case...\n            if error_message:  # print the error_message if it is not \"\", false or None.\n                print(error_message)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then you have a third problem: You should just use <strong>lowercase letters<\/strong> in function names, to distinguish them from classes. This is just about your style, but it&#8217;ll certainly help to develop a good, clear coding style.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I could help,<\/p>\n<p>CodenameLambda<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Accepting only letters as input [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The answer for the first problem: You never defined first_name outside of Players_input. This value is just stored inside the function, and get&#8217;s deleted afterwards. (more about this in the link added by gjttt1) There are two ways to solve this: You could make first_name global. But this is a bad style, so I &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Accepting only letters as input [closed]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accepting-only-letters-as-input-closed\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Accepting only letters as input [closed]\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[349,482],"class_list":["post-27494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-python","tag-python-3-x"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Accepting only letters as input [closed] - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-accepting-only-letters-as-input-closed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Accepting only letters as input [closed] - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] The answer for the first problem: You never defined first_name outside of Players_input. 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