Alan Gauld wrote:
"Doug Reid" <rnrcr...@yahoo.com> wrote
The tutorial I'm using is discussing list, tuples, and dictionaries.
...
four attributes: Strength,Stamina, Wisdom, and Dexterity.
The player should be able to spend points from the pool on
any attribute and should also be able to take points from
an attribute and put them back into the pool.
How would you describe a dictionary?
Can you see a way to apply it to the problem?
#list of attributes and their values
attributes=['dexterity=',dexterity ,'strength=',strength,
'stamina=',stamina, 'wisdom=',wisdom]
It is a list but not of attributes. Its a list containing strings and
numbers alternating. The strings consist of an attribute name
and an equals sign. But you know about a collection type that
stores values against strings and allows you to retrieve those
values using the string as a key.
#creation loop
while creating:
choice=menu()
if choice=='0':
print '\nThank you for using character creator.'
end=raw_input('\n Press enter to end.')
creating=False
elif choice=='1':#prints out list of attributes and their values
for entry in attributes:
print entry,
This will print
attribute=
value
attribute=
value
Not very pretty. But if you use a dictionary:
for item in dictionary:
print item, '=', dictionary[item]
elif choice=='2':
allot=raw_input('''What attribute would you like to change?
Enter dex for dexterity, str for strength, etc. ''').lower()
if allot=='dex':
change=int(raw_input('How many points do you wish to allot? '))
attributes[1]=dexterity=+change
points=points-change
if allot=='str':
change=int(raw_input('How many points do you wish to allot? '))
attributes[3]=strength=+change
And this gets even more messy.
Again think how it would look with a dictionary...
I am also new to Python and never programed before. I use the questions
from the Tutor list to learn. I put the attributes into dictionaries and
came up with a little game between the user and the computer. Thank
you Doug for the question.
Here is my attempt;
http://linuxcrazy.pastebin.com/m31d02824
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