Question

def complex():
    answer = raw_input("Would you like to run this program?")

    answer = answer.lower()

    money = 5

    if "yes" in answer:
        print money
        money = money - 1
        complex()

    else:
        quit()

complex()

For some reason, every-time I enter “yes” into the raw_input it spits out 5. But I want it to spit out 5 then when I type yes again I want it to spit out 4, and then if I type yes again I want it to spit out 3….

I fixed this by using the Global statement:

money = 5
def complex():
answer = raw_input("Would you like to run this program?")
answer = answer.lower()


    if "yes" in answer:
        global money
        print money
        money = money - 1
        complex()

    else:
        quit()

complex()

Answer 1

This is what your procedure is doing :

1. Get user input
2. Set variable money to 5
3. Validate if user input value is “yes” and if so print value if variable money which is 5.
4. Set variable money to 5 – 1 = 4
5. Run procedure complex()
6. Get user input
7. Set variable money to 5
8. Validate if user input value is “yes” and if so print value if variable money which is 5.
9. Set variable money to 5 – 1 = 4
10. Run procedure complex()

…
etc.

As you can see your procedure is overwriting the desired value (4) with the value of 5 with each iteration that that is why it is not working as you desire.

What you could do is make a loop to run x number of times after money has been set to five.