Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

[Duncan Booth]

hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) wrote in
news:cb035744.0208220055.3a09c133 at posting.google.com: 

> Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:
>> hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) wrote:
>> > Hmm, a nethack bot written in Python could be fun.  Need to capture
>> > nethack's character based output somehow.
>> > 
>> Anyway, extracting the output from Nethack at a suitably high level
>> isn't a hard task. It is pretty well structured in that area.
> 
> How would you set out to do that?
> Something like redirecting the nethack output, um, 
> os.system('nethack > outtputfile')
> and reading the outputfile?

What I meant was that you recompile Nethack supplying your own 
implementations of the screen driving functions. These functions are quite 
a high level: win_askname (asks the player for their name), win_putstr 
(outputs a string to a specified window), win_start_menu, win_add_menu, 
win_end_menu, win_select_menu (do menu stuff), win_yn_function (asks a 
question expecting yes, no, quit etc. as answers).

The interface functions also include event notifications such as 
win_update_inventory (called whenever your inventory changes).
 
Reimplement these functions to links through to your bot and you will get 
more information than most ports generally put on the screen.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?