Question

Here is the code:

def StartGame():
    root = Tk()
    root.title("Maths Quiz - Trigonometry and Pythagoras' Theorem | Start The Game")
    root.geometry("640x480")
    root.configure(background = "gray92")
    TotScore = 0
    Count = 0
    while Count < 10:
        AnswerReply = None
        WorkingArea = Text(root, width = 70, height = 10, wrap = WORD).place(x = 38, y = 100)
        n = GetRandomNumber
        Question,RealAnswer = QuestionLibrary(Opposite,Adjacent,Hypotenuse,Angle,n)
        AskQuestion = Label(root, text = Question).place(x = 38, y = 300)
        PauseButton = ttk.Button(root, text = "Pause").place(x = 380, y = 10)
        HelpButton = ttk.Button(root, text = "Help", command = helpbutton_click).place(x = 460, y = 10)
        QuitButton = ttk.Button(root, text = "Quit", command = root.destroy).place(x = 540, y = 10)
        AnswerEntry = Entry(root)
        AnswerEntry.place(x = 252, y = 375)
        SubmitButton = ttk.Button(root, text = "Submit", command = submit_answer).place(x = 276, y = 400)
        Count += 1
    root.mainloop()

This is the function used with the submit button:

def submit_answer():
    Answer = AnswerEntry.get()
    print(Answer)
    TotScore,AnswerReply = IsAnswerCorrect(Answer,RealAnswer)
    ScoreLabel = ttk.Label(root, text = TotScore).place(x = 10, y = 10)
    AnswerReplyLabel = ttk.Label(root, text = AnswerReply).place(x = 295, y = 440)

And this is the error I get when I click on the SubmitButton

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1399, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\ANNIE\Documents\School\Computing\Project\Python\GUI Maths Quiz.py", line 178, in submit_answer
    Answer = AnswerEntry.get()
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'get'

I’m trying to make a quiz game where I get an input from the user using the AnswerEntry Entry box, however it is telling me that the object has no attribute get, please help!

Answer 1

If you expect the AnswerEntry = Entry(root) line to affect a global name defined outside of the function, you need to declare it a global inside of your StartGame() function:

global AnswerEntry
AnswerEntry = Entry(root)

Assignment to a variable in a function makes that variable name local to the function only. It appears you assigned an integer value to the global AnswerEntry elsewhere, so submit_answer() sees that when you call AnswerEntry.get().

You should really avoid globals though.