Python newbie needs help
Ron Hudson
ron.hudson at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 14 13:00:16 EST 2005
First let me apologize if this post offends, I am a real newbie to
Python having only used it for about
2 days. If this is the wrong place to post newbie questions, please
be polite.
I have the O'Reily Learning Python book and I am reading it.
Here's what I am working on..
I am trying to create something like a MUD, It will eventually evolve
to a multi player
MUD over the network game, but for now it's just a platform for
authoring and playing
text adventures that works like a single user MUD.
I am using a dictionary to hold the world.
I have a .py file with some def scripts(?) in it. right now it only
has scripts to
save and load the world dictionary.
I am using "Import" to read it after I start an interactive python.
What I need
right now is I seem to have some sort of scoping problems with the
world dictionary.
I can read it and write it and "world<cr>" lists it out. but my def
look(at): script
it seems it doesn't see the the "world" dictionary.
>>> import lets
>>> world = lets.loadworld()
>>> world
{'wizarddescription':'A short guy wearing a robe and a pointy hat'}
>>> lets.look('wizard')
file "<stdin>" line ?
file lets.py line 14 in look
print world[at+'description']
nameError:world
>>> at = 'wizard'
>>> print world[at+'description']
A short guy wearing a robe and a pointy hat
>>>
Is there a way to make 'world' global? can I do it in lets.py?
Am I going about this all wrong?
Thanks.
P.S. Is there a way to tell python to "save my whole environment"
and to "reload my whole environment"
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