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

totalPoints is being cloned inside your function. To do what you want, you should set totalPoints based on the function result, like so:

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

totalPoints = Correct(totalPoints)

This ignores why you would want such a function in the first place, but it should work.