end quote help for a newbie

[alex23]

On 27/02/2014 8:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Peter Clark <artomishka at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> # Dragons and dungeons, based on CP/M program messages from ca. 1966
> # This version designed and produced by peter clark beginning in December 2013
> def startandload(n):    # introduce program and allow messages to be
> loaded/amended
>      x = str(input("Welcome Adventurer, what is your name?"))
>      if x==('load'):
>          y = str(input("messages, places or things?"))
>          if y in("messages", "places","things"):
>              print("OK")
>          else: print("Wrong")
>      if x==('restart'):
>          y = str(input("game reference"))
>          if y in("messages", "places","things"):
>              print("*** to be done - load and restart game ***")
>          else: print("Wrong")
>
> while True:
>      startandload
>
>
> The problem is right at the end: you don't actually call the function.
> You always need parentheses to call a function.

`startandload` also takes a parameter that doesn't seem to be used.

> I'm also a bit
> confused as to your reason for running a function called
> "startandload" (which seems to be initialization) in an infinite loop;
> you possibly just want to call it once.

Or perhaps:

     if __name__ == '__main__':
         startandload()