[Tutor] Picking up Item()s

[Britt Green]

I have the following code for a very very simple text adventure. Right
now a player can move around a few rooms and there are a couple of
objects in the room that one should be able to pick up.

Unfortunately I'm stuck on this point: When a player enters a room it
doesn't say "This room contains a key." Instead it says "This room
contains  [<__main__.Item instance at 0x00AC5320>]". How can I make it
so that it displays the name of the Item. Furthermore, I'd want the
player to be able to type "get key" to pick up the key, not
"__main__.Item instance at 0x00AC5320". How could I do this?

Britt

import sys
import string

class Room:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.items = []
        
    def createExits(self, exits):
        self.exits = exits

    def itemsInRooms(self, item):
        self.items.append(item)
        
class Item:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.inPosses = 0

areas = ['porch', 'foyer', 'bathroom', 'mid_stairs', 'living',
'hallway']
rooms = []
for n in areas:
    rooms.append(Room(n))

rooms[0].createExits({'e':1})
rooms[1].createExits({'e':5, 'w':0})
rooms[2].createExits({'s':5})
rooms[3].createExits({'n':5})
rooms[4].createExits({'w':5})
rooms[5].createExits({'e':4, 'n':2, 's':3, 'w':1})

items = ['key', 'door']
things = []
for n in items:
    things.append(Item(n))

rooms[0].itemsInRooms(things[0])
rooms[1].itemsInRooms(things[1])

playLoc = 0
words = ['n','s','e','w','q','get']
command = []

while 1:
    command = string.split(raw_input("--> "))
    if command[0] not in words:
        print "Come again?"
    else:
        if command[0] == 'q':
            sys.exit(1)
        elif command[0] in ['n','s','e','w']:
            if rooms[playLoc].exits.has_key(command[0]):
                playLoc = rooms[playLoc].exits.get(command[0])
                print "You find yourself in the " + rooms[playLoc].name
                print "You can move ", rooms[playLoc].exits.keys()
                if len(rooms[playLoc].items) != 0:
                    print "This room contains ", rooms[playLoc].items
            else:
                print "Your path is blocked."
        else:
            if command[1] in rooms[playLoc].items.name:
                print "You picked up the", command[1]
                for i in range(len(rooms[playLoc].items)):
                    print i                    
##                    print rooms[playLoc].items[command[1]]
##                    print things[i].name
                    
                rooms[playLoc].items.remove(command[1])
            else:
                print "That item isn't in here!"

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