Moving Between Rooms v5

I have code that Instant Feedback - Sense recognizes as working, but doesn't work when ran in PyCharm. It reads as follows:

# First is the Room Dictionary, containing all of the Room IDs and the directions linked to them
rooms = {
    'Main Entry': {'East': 'Main Floor'},
    'Main Floor': {'North': 'North Hall', 'South': 'South Hall', 'East': 'Clothes Store', 'West': 'Main Entry'},
    'South Hall': {'East': 'Food Court', 'North': 'Main Floor'},
    'North Hall': {'East': 'Storage Room', 'South': 'Main Floor'},
    'Clothes Store': {'North': 'Theater', 'West': 'Main Floor'},
    'Theater': {'South': 'Clothes Store'}
}

#The current_room function tracks which "room" the user is in, and starts them in the Main Entry
current_room = 'Main Entry'

#The while loop plays until the user enters exit, to which it then ends the game.
while current_room != 'exit':
    print(f"You are currently in the {current_room}")
    command = input("Enter command: ")
#The commands are what moves the player around. If a direction is input that leads to another room, the current room
#is changed to match that direction. If the direction goes nowhere, the program will have the user input something else.
#Finally, if the input is neither a direction nor exit, it will output the error message
    if command == 'exit':
        current_room = 'exit'
    elif command in ['North', 'South', 'East', 'West']:
        direction = command.split(' ')[1]
        if direction in rooms[current_room]:
            current_room = rooms[current_room][direction]
        else:
            print("Can't go that way")
    else:
        print("No can do")

print("You have exited the game.")

The specific error message I'm getting is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\patri\PycharmProjects\PythonProject\.venv\ModuleSixMilestone.py", line 26, in <module>
    direction = command.split(' ')[1]
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range

What is causing this error and how can I fix it? Are there related errors that I'll need to patch out as well?

Answer

I am not fully sure what did you want to achieve, but your code is bugged and direction handling just can't work. If command is one of ['North', 'South', 'East', 'West'] , command.split(' ') is always going to return a single element list, as none of these strings contains a whitespace. Therefore, trying to access a 2nd element using index [1] is always going to cause an IndexError. I guess that if command is one of 4 directions, your direction is just a command, so you can just do direction = command (or just use command variable directly) and then your code would work fine.