Python - random child name generator generators - (duplicate input, calling variables)

Question

I watched this all day and cannot understand why gender input is repeated, despite the fact that it is only called once. This is not part of the cycle that I can see.

I tried to add variables to work as a counter and tried to use the if statement only to start input if the counter variable is less than 1, but cannot figure it out.

Edit: Thanks to the excellent feedback here, I found out that get_full_name causes duplication of gender input in get_first_name, but now I run into problems when trying to output randomly generated first and middle names.

I decided to set setFirst, setMiddle and setLast variables as global, but then I get a NameError. I also tried to create a new function to display them, but that didn't work either. I tried adding an "I". (without quotes) either directly in function (), or in one of the approaches below.

I will show the error first, then the full code.

Error: Traceback (last last call):
    File “ init .py”, line 100, in main ()
    File “ init .py”, line 92, in main
      print displayName (setFirst, setMiddle, setLast)
  NameError: global name 'setFirst ' undefined

I also get name errors trying to combine setFirst, setMiddle and setLast into another variable for the full name.

Here is the code:

from os.path import abspath, join, dirname
import random

full_path = lambda filename: abspath(join(dirname(__file__), filename))


FILES = {
    'first:male': full_path('dist.male.first'),
    'first:female': full_path('dist.female.first'),
    'last': full_path('dist.all.last'),
}


def get_name(filename):
    selected = random.random() * 90
    with open(filename) as name_file:
        for line in name_file:
            name, _, cummulative, _ = line.split()
            if float(cummulative) > selected:
                return name


def get_first_name(gender=None):
    global determine
    global setFirst

    print ("First name... Enter 1 for Male, 2 for Female or 3 to be surprised! ")
    determine = input()

    if determine == 1:
        gender = 'male'
    if determine == 2:
        gender = 'female'
    if determine == 3:
        print ("You want to be surprised!")
        gender = random.choice(('male', 'female'))

    return get_name(FILES['first:%s' % gender]).capitalize()
    setFirst = get_first_name()
    print setFirst + " "

def get_middle_name(gender=None):
    global setMiddle

    if determine == 1:
        gender = 'male'
    if determine == 2:
        gender = 'female'
    if determine == 3:
        gender = random.choice(('male', 'female'))

    return get_name(FILES['first:%s' % gender]).capitalize()
    setMiddle = get_middle_name()
    print setMiddle + " "

def get_last_name():
    global setLast

    #We will implicitly pass a Last Name until other issues are fixed
    return "Smith"

    setLast = get_last_name()
    print setLast

def get_full_name(gender=None):
    return u"%s %s %s" % (get_first_name(gender), get_middle_name(gender), get_last_name())

#def displayName(setFirst, setMiddle, setLast):
#    print setFirst + " " + setMiddle + " " + setLast

def main():
    #print u"%s %s %s" % (setFirst, setMiddle, setLast)
    #print displayName(setFirst, setMiddle, setLast)

    f = open('output', 'a') #append output to filename output
    f.write(get_full_name() + '\n') #and add a line break after each run
    f.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

main() :

def main(setFirst, setMiddle, setLast):

- NameError , . ?

"import random", "None", , - . ?

setFirst = None
setMiddle = None
setLast = None

, , : def displayName (setFirst, setMiddle, setLast):

if setFirst == None:
    print ("Random Baby Name Generator")

else:
    print setFirst
    print setMiddle
    print setLast

if setMiddle == None:
    print ("Double check the middle name variable.")

if setLast == None:
    print ("Double check the last name variable.")

Answer 1

get_full_name(), :

def main():
    full_name = get_full_name()
    print(full_name)
    f = open('output', 'a') #append output to filename output
    f.write(full_name + '\n') #and add a line break after each run
    f.close()

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:

from os.path import abspath, join, dirname
import random

full_path = lambda filename: abspath(join(dirname(__file__), filename))


FILES = {
    'first:male': full_path('dist.male.first'),
    'first:female': full_path('dist.female.first'),
    'last': full_path('dist.all.last'),
}

GENDER_MAP = {'1': 'male', '2': 'female'}

def get_gender():
    result = input('Select a gender: 1 for Male, 2 for Female or 3 to be surprised')
    if result not in ('1', '2', '3'):
       print('{} is not a valid choice, please try again'.format(result))
       return get_gender()
    if result == '3':
       return random.choice(('1', '2'))
    return result

def get_name(filename):
    selected = random.random() * 90
    with open(filename) as name_file:
        for line in name_file:
            name, _, cummulative, _ = line.split()
            if float(cummulative) > selected:
                return name

def get_name_from_file(name_type='first', gender='male'):
    if name_type in ('first','middle',):
        name = get_name(FILES['{}:{}'.format(name_type, gender)]).capitalize()
    else:
        name = get_name(FILES['last']).capitalize()
    return name

def get_full_name():
    gender = get_gender()
    gender_file = GENDER_MAP.get(gender, '')
    first_name = get_name_from_file('first', gender_file)
    middle_name = get_name_from_file('middle', gender_file)
    last_name = get_name_from_file('last')

    return '{} {} {}'.format(first_name, middle_name, last_name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    name = get_full_name()
    print(full_name)
    with open('output', 'a') as f:
       f.write('{}\n'.format(full_name))
    print('Done')

Answer 2

get_full_name , , , get_full_name, . , .