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This is an attempt at a simple text adventure. I can't manage to make the conditionals work the way I want them to. When user input is given, such as 'left' when asked, it tells me 'left' isn't defined, even though I listed it in there. Here's the code.

from time import sleep

name = raw_input("What is your name? ")
live = raw_input("Where do you live? ")

print "%s. You have just come to your senses." % (name)
print "You are in %s, lying in the road." % (live)
sleep (5)

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()

print "You look at your watch. There's a crack in the screen."
sleep (5)
print "Surely it cannot be %s/%s/%s at %s o clock..." % \
(now.day, now.month, now.year, now.hour)
sleep (5)
print "There is light blotting orange onto your closed eyes."
sleep (7)
print "You open your eyes."
sleep (5)
print "you see the road. Scarred, cracked and peppered with dead birds."
sleep (5)
print "Smoke thins out over the horizon."
sleep (5)
print "There is a house you are familiar with, to your right."
sleep (3)
print "There is a road leading uphill to your left."
sleep (3)
print "Where do you turn to?"

answer = raw_input("Type left or right and press Enter.")
if answer == left:
    print "The road winds uphill."
sleep (5)
print "Glass crunches underfoot."
sleep (5)
print "The trees are all bare."
sleep (5)
print "The leaves turned to dust."
print "They are ground into the cracks, between the paving stones."
sleep (5)
if answer == right:
    print "The corridor turns sharply."
sleep (2)
print "You go deeper inside until you can't see anything"
sleep(5)
print "You hear a noise from the floor below."
sleep (5)
print "You can just make out a white doorframe under the staircase."
sleep (5)
answer2 = raw_input("Do you go into the basement? Type yes, or no.")
if answer2 == yes:
    print "The stairs creak. You fumble along the wall for a lightswitch"
sleep (5)
print "Do you press it?"
if answer3 == yes:
    print "Light floods the basement. It leaves you blinded for a few seconds..."
sleep (5)
print "Were you pushed or did you fall?"
sleep (2)
print "No one remembers that day, or any other. The End"
if answer2 == no:
    print "You can't see a thing. You decide to get out back to the street."
sleep (5)
print "Night is falling. You are hopelessly lost."
sleep (20)
sys.exit
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    If left is supposed to be a string, why did you not use answer == "left" then? Commented May 19, 2014 at 17:01
  • When I do that, it says: File "Intro.py", line 33 if answer == "left" ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Commented May 19, 2014 at 17:03
  • I'm afraid I've only just started with Python today, so I'm not the most experienced. Commented May 19, 2014 at 17:04
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    You did more than just make left a string, you also removed the :. That's a new error. Commented May 19, 2014 at 17:04

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if answer == "left":

you need to compare strings with strings

if answer == left:

is trying to compare the variable answer with the variable left, which python is correctly telling you that there is no variable named left

of coarse another possibility would be to define a variable named left at the top

left = "left"

(Keep in mind the same applies for your other comparisons)

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It looks like you have not defined the variables left, right, yes nor no. Since the input is a string, you should compare it against a string:

if answer == "left":
    ...
if answer == "right":
    ...
if answer == "yes":
    ...
if answer == "no":
    ...

Note: A string in Python is enclosed by single quotes 'some string' or double quotes "another string", or, as @JoranBeasley mentioned, triple quotes """some multi-line string""" .

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or even triple quotes """some string"""" +1 all the same
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 answer = raw_input("Type left or right and press Enter.")

if answer == "left":

     print "The road winds uphill."
 sleep (5)
 print "Glass crunches underfoot."
 sleep (5)
 print "The trees are all bare."
 sleep (5)
 print "The leaves turned to dust."
 print "They are ground into the cracks, between the paving stones."
 sleep (5)

if answer == "right":

     print "The corridor turns sharply."
 sleep (2)
 print "You go deeper inside until you can't see anything"
 sleep(5)
 print "You hear a noise from the floor below."
 sleep (5)
 print "You can just make out a white doorframe under the staircase."
 sleep (5)
 answer2 = raw_input("Do you go into the basement? Type yes, or no.")

if answer2 == "yes":

     print "The stairs creak. You fumble along the wall for a lightswitch"
 sleep (5)
 print "Do you press it?"

if answer3 == "yes":

     print "Light floods the basement. It leaves you blinded for a few seconds..."
 sleep (5)
 print "Were you pushed or did you fall?"
 sleep (2)
 print "No one remembers that day, or any other. The End"

if answer2 == "no":

     print "You can't see a thing. You decide to get out back to the street."
 sleep (5)
 print "Night is falling. You are hopelessly lost."
 sleep (20)
 sys.exit

you need the quotes because otherwise the compiler assumes it is a variable and you want the constant value "left", "yes", etc. not a variable called left, yes etc

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Thank you very much, that sorted it out. Now to deal with the problems in the game itself...
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Your issue will likely be resolved with this:

if answer == "left":
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