AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute

Question

I'm pretty new to python programming and I wanted to try my hand at a simple text adventure game, but I've immediately stumbled on a roadblock. ``` class userInterface: def __init__(self, roomID, roomDesc, dirDesc, itemDesc): self.roomID = roomID self.roomDesc = roomDesc self.dirDesc = dirDesc self.itemDesc = itemDesc def displayRoom(self): #Displays the room description print(self.roomDesc) def displayDir(self): #Displays available directions L1 = self.dirDesc.keys() L2 = "" for i in L1: L2 += str(i) + " " print("You can go: " + L2) def displayItems(self): #Displays any items of interest print("Interesting items: " + str(self.itemDesc)) def displayAll(self, num): #Displays all of the above num.displayRoom() num.displayDir() num.displayItems() def playerMovement(self): #Allows the player to change rooms based on the cardinal directions if input( "--> " ) in self.dirDesc.keys(): letsago = "ID" + str(self.dirDesc.values()) self.displayAll(letsago) else: print("Sorry, you can't go there…

Accepted Answer

The problem is in your `playerMovement` method. You are creating the string name of your room variables (`ID1`, `ID2`, `ID3`):

```
letsago = "ID" + str(self.dirDesc.values())
```

However, what you create is just a `str`. It is not the variable. Plus, I do not think it is doing what you think its doing:

```
>>>str({'a':1}.values())
'dict_values([1])'
```

If you REALLY needed to find the variable this way, you could use the `eval` function:

```
>>>foo = 'Hello World!'
>>>eval('foo')
'Hello World!'
```

or the `globals` function:

```
class Foo(object):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Foo, self).__init__()
    def test(self, name):
        print(globals()[name])

foo = Foo()
bar = 'Hello World!'
foo.text('bar')
```

However, instead I would strongly recommend you rethink you class(es). Your `userInterface` class is essentially a `Room`. It shouldn't handle player movement. This should be within another class, maybe `GameManager` or something like that.

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute

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