Rock Paper Scissors (Need help)

[Lukili]

So i've been trying to figure out what is wrong here but i think that i dont have enough experience in python yet.
Can anyone point out my mistake here?

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def main():     choice = input("Pick one: 1)Rock 2)Paper 3)Scissors | Answer: ")     if (choice == "1"):         print (">You chose rock!<")     if (choice == "2"):         print (">You chose paper!<")     if (choice == "3"):         print (">You chose scissors!<")     answer ()    def mid():     import time     time.sleep(2)     import random     botc = random.randint(1,3)    def answer():     if (botc == "1" and choice =="1"):         print("Picked Rock!Tie!")     if (botc == "2" and choice == "2"):         print ("Picked Paper!Tie!")     if (botc == "3" and choice == "3"):         print ("Picked scissors!Tie!")     if (botc == "1" and choice == "2"):         print ("Picked rock!You win!")     if (botc == "1" and choice == "3"):         print ("Picked rock!You lost!")     if (botc == "2" and choice == "1"):         print ("Picked paper!You lose!")     if (botc == "2" and choice == "3"):         print ("Picked paper!You win!")     if (botc == "3" and choice == "1"):         print ("Picked scissors!You win!")     if (botc == "3" and choice == "2" ):         print ("Picked scissors!You win!")     mid()    main()

Thanks

[Gribouillis]

You want to share the values of choice and botc between the three functions. The way things are written, every function has its own variables choice and botc. A solution is to use global variables. You can write

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at the top of the file, then you can start function main with a global statement

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def main():     global choice     ...

This tells python that it is the same global variable in the function. In the same way, you need to write

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def mid():     global botc     ...

and

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def answer():     global choice, botc     ...

Shouldn't mid() be called at the beginning of answer() ?

Later you will learn that there are better ways to share variables between functions.