So I’m trying to build a simple typing speed test. It takes the input for 60 seconds and calculates typing speed and accuracy. I used “inputimeout” to try achieve the objectives, however, the variable “text”, which should contain the timed input from the user, cannot be used in other parts of the program; it causes an error stating that “text” was not assigned.

This is just one part of the code. This should be where the error is

def text_receiver():
    try:
        text = inputimeout(prompt = "Type the above in one minute:  ", timeout = 60)
    except Exception:
        print("Time's up! ")
        
    return text

This is the error

 local variable 'text' referenced before assignment

if the error is quite obvious, I apologize as I haven’t written much codes with “try except” and inputimeout