First piece of code

[deanhystad]

What do you mean by:

The code loads so I can test the instance but it doesn't produce an answer?

The code produces the answer: "Here are some tips on how to reduce the environmental impact of your event:" Granted that is not a useful answer, but your program cannot produce any other answer because it only has one.

Let's start with "What is the program supposed to do?" This is obviously a homework assignment. You should post the instructions along with the code. As is, I don't know what code you wrote (probably new_func()) or what the code is supposed to do.

The database is empty.

# Create a database to store the questions and answers
database = {}

You never put anything in database, so it never finds any answers.

What are you doing here?

def new_func():
    return "Here are some tips on how to reduce the environmental impact of your event:\n"
 
answers = [new_func().strip()]