Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Python

NameError: name 'shopping_list' is not defined

import os

def clear_screen():
    os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear')

def show_help():
    clear_screen()
    print('What should we pick up at the store?')
    print("""
Enter 'DONE' to stop adding items.
Enter 'HELP' for help.
Enter 'SHOW' to see your current list.
Enter 'REMOVE' to delete an item from your list.
""")

def add_to_list(item):
    show_list()
    if len(shopping_list):
        position = input('Where should I add {}?\n'
                         'Press ENTER to add to the end of the list\n'
                         '> '.format(item))

    else:
        position = 0

    try:
        position = abs(int(position))
    except ValueError:
        position = None
    if position is not None:
        shopping_list.insert(position-1, item)
    else:
        shopping_list.append(new_item)

    show_list()

def show_list():
    clear_screen()

    print('Here is your list:')

    index = 1
    for item in shopping_list:
        print('{}. {}'.format(index, item))
        index += 1
    print('-'*15)


def remove_from_list():
    show_list()
    what_to_remove = input('What would you like to remove?\n> ')
    try:
        shopping_list.remove(what_to_remove)
    except ValueError:
        pass
    show_list()

show_help()

while True:
    new_item = input('> ')

    if new_item.upper() == 'DONE' or new_item.upper() == 'QUIT':
        break
    elif new_item.upper() == 'HELP':
        show_help()
        continue
    elif new_item.upper == 'SHOW':
        show_list()
        continue
    elif new_item.upper == 'REMOVE':
        remove_from_list()
    else:
        add_to_list(new_item)

show_list()

I lost my shopping_list.py, so I had to rewatch some of the stuff. But now I'm getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                    
  File "shopping_list.py", line 74, in <module>                                                       
    add_to_list(new_item)                                                                             
  File "shopping_list.py", line 17, in add_to_list                                                    
    show_list()                                                                                       
  File "shopping_list.py", line 43, in show_list                                                      
    for item in shopping_list:                                                                        
NameError: name 'shopping_list' is not defined

Please help!

1 Answer

Hi Stivan, Your code seems to work fine, the only thing you forgot is to create the 'shopping_list' itself. Just put an empty list at the beginning of your file, before everything else. This way your shopping_list is in the global scope and can be accessed by all your other functions!

shoping_list = []

Another small thing I noticed is that you forgot some parentheses in your while loop at the last two new_item.upper() statements. Hopefully, this helps you!

elif new_item.upper() == 'SHOW':
        show_list()
        continue
elif new_item.upper() == 'REMOVE':
        remove_from_list()

It works!! Thank you so much!!