simple movement in ascii-based rpg

[Pete Shinners]

Stefan Antoni wrote:
> i wrote this little "rpg" (it's very bad, i know. i don't have much
> coding experience).
> my main problem is to build a solid way to move the p(layer) and to 
> connect this visual output with the game logic.

it may or may not help, but i wrote a beginners guide to doing this sort of 
thing with graphics. it even starts out with numbers in a list.

Help! How do I Move an Image?
http://pygame.org/docs/tut/MoveIt.html