Hi, I'm a total newbie too, and I'm kind of replying to see if my
instinct on the whole GOTO thing is correct. It's hard to learn a
language without any feedback!
I used GW and Color Basic when I was a kid so I know all about GOTO (and
it was a mess! I programmed one of those interactive stories in grade 12
using it, it took all semester and was anything but elegant!)
I would expect with Python, instead of using GOTO you use defined
functions.
So for instance, you could define chapters as functions
def chapter2():
print "You've chosen to leap over the chasm"
print "too bad you forgot you were carrying an anvil"
print "What part of b-bye don't you understand?"
so that in your code, instead of
> 0100 print "Ahead of you, you see a chasm.
> 0200 jump = raw_input("Do you wish to try jumping over it? Y/N")
> 0300 if jump = Y:
> 0400 goto 1700
> 0500 if jump = N:
> 0600 goto 2100
you could have
> 0100 print "Ahead of you, you see a chasm."
> 0200 jumpQ = raw_input("Do you wish to try jumping over it? y/n: ")
> 0300 if jumpQ == "y":
> 0400 chapter2()
> 0500 elif jumpQ == "n":
> 0600 chapter3()
I just tried this bit out
def chapter1():
print "this is an interactive story test"
print
def chapter2():
print "You have chosen to leap across the chasm"
print "Sadly you forgot you are carrying an anvil"
print "What part of b-bye don't you understand?"
def chapter3():
print "You wisely chose to turn back home"
print "The anvil you are carrying would surely cause you"
print "to plummet to your death"
def main():
chapter1()
print "You come across a chasm, would you like to jump?"
jumpQ = raw_input("y/n: ")
if jumpQ == "y":
chapter2()
elif jumpQ == "n":
chapter3()
main()
and it worked although I have doubts about how good it would be overall
once the story got very involved. I'm interested to see what others
think.
Jacqui
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