Betcha what happened was when he changed "False" to "True", he also deleted the return character, so what was 2 lines became 1 line.
Totally possible, but can't be sure until we've seen the error message.
Best thing to do to turn on the console is to use unren.
I totally agree, especially for people who have no idea what they're doing.
On Windows PC-s
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would be the obvious choice, with the benefits of being able to extract archives with all the images and scripts in them, even if the word "decompiling" has no meaning to its user.
Mac and Linux people can try its
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with the same functionality, that you've been maintaining.
In this case though, there's a problem to fix first. The obvious for me would be reading that error message and then fix that rpy file, but for him may be easier to extract that file from the downloaded game archive and replace the modified file with the original. And then use unren, instead of making his hands dirty with a little text replacement.