[Tutor] stuck newbie

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 18-Aug-2002 paul meaney wrote:
> 
> Im a total newbie and this is my first effort at writing my own bit of code.
> The program asks for the user to enter details of soccer teams performance
> from their last six home/away games to calculate a performance score.
> 
> Everything was going well to this point until I when it started skipping the
> section asking for home team and only inputs the team names and the following
> error message is generated; 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "E:\Documents and Settings\paul\Desktop\match_form.py", line 24, in ?
>     while aw + ad + al != 6 :
> NameError: name 'aw' is not defined
> 
> I know this will probably be a fundamental mistake, but your help and
> guidance would be appreciated,
> 

is this your entire script?  It looks like you simply forgot to initialize the
variables before the loop:

aw = 0
ad = 0
al = 0
while aw + ad + al != 6:
    ...
    ...

in Python the variable must exist before it can be used.