Day 091 - Project 91 : The joke's on you!

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Hey Guys! I have broken some code for you… Can you please fix it?
Haha :crazy_face:

Now, seriously, here’s my problem:

I get an interesting ValueError: Circular Reference detected when trying to store the joke to the replit database.

I know it’s probably because of my functions, but I don’t see, why it shouldn’t work…

Can you please enlighten me? :pray:

import requests, json
from replit import db

def joke():  
  result = requests.get("https://icanhazdadjoke.com/", headers={"Accept":"application/json"}) 
  joke = result.json()["joke"]
  id = result.json()["id"]
  print(joke)
  return joke, id

def save(joke, id):
  db[id] = joke
  print("Joke saved")
  return

def view():
  for key in db.keys():
    print(f"{key}\n\n")

def menu():
  print("The Joke's on You!\n")
  select = input("Generate random Joke or view Joke-Database?\n1: Random Joke\n2:View Jokes\n")
  if select == "1":
    joke()
    store = input("Save this Joke?\nYes/No:\t").lower()
    if store[0] == "y":
      save(joke,id)
  if select == "2":
    view()
  select = input("press enter when done")
  return
    
while True:
  menu()

Thanks :kissing_closed_eyes:

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You have a var passed to a function called “joke”, and you have a function called “joke”, try renaming one or the other.
Here:

And here:

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Thank You @Firepup650 ! - too easy :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile:

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Hi all

I have an IndentationError: unexpected indent on line 18. Can you help me fix it.

here is the code:

import requests, json, os, time
from replit import db

while (True):
 time.sleep(1)
 result = requests.get("https://icanhazdadjoke.com/", headers={"Accept":"application/json"}) 
 joke = result.json()

 jk = joke["joke"]
 id = joke["id"]
 print(jk)
answer =  input("\n(s)ave joke, (l)oad old jokes, (n)ew joke\n>").lower()
if answer=="n":
    continue
elif answer=="s":
  db[id] = jk
  print("\nSAVED\n")
    continue
else:
  keys = db.keys()
  for key in keys:
    print(db[key])
    print("\n")
    time.sleep(1)

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problem
Thanks

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Hi @emer2020, welcome to the community!

An IndentationError means that you either put too much indentation or not enough. The error specifies line 18, and you’ll notice, the continue statement was indented too much and not aligned with the print statement. But you’ll also get an error because continue statements cannot be outside of a loop. This is because the rest of your code isn’t indented with the loop. Here’s the fixed code:

import requests, json, os, time
from replit import db

while (True):
  time.sleep(1)
  result = requests.get("https://icanhazdadjoke.com/", headers={"Accept":"application/json"}) 
  joke = result.json()

  jk = joke["joke"]
  id = joke["id"]
  print(jk)
  answer =  input("\n(s)ave joke, (l)oad old jokes, (n)ew joke\n>").lower()
  if answer=="n":
    continue
  elif answer=="s":
    db[id] = jk
    print("\nSAVED\n")
    continue
  else:
    keys = db.keys()
    for key in keys:
      print(db[key])
      print("\n")
      time.sleep(1)
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hi @QwertyQwerty88 , thanks for the help.

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