[Tutor] Newbie Project part 2...

[Tony Noyeaux]

Thanks for your reply Alan.
 
Reorganizing the data into a dictionary format, not sure i understood your structure below, but understood the need to reorg my data into dictionaries.
 
Was wondering it would work if i created two dictionaries;
 
One say,... results, the other questions. Reorganizing the data something like this. Using an alpha key for the results, and a numeric key for the questions.
 
If i go to this kind of format, would i a be able to still use random code with it effectively?, as i mix and max dictionary events.
 
random.choice .. only seemed to give me the key and not the definition... not sure how to phrase that code.
 
The learning continues... thanks again.
 
If this structure would lend itself to what i'm trying to do,.. will then try and rebuild the questions into the structure.
 
questions = {"111":"Army,Navy or Air Force",\"112":"Leave the Service, Get Desk Job, Become trainer",\"113":"etc1?",\"114":"etc2?",\}
results = {"aaa":"You die",\"aab":"You are wounded",\"aac":"You lose a leg",\"aad":"You lose an eye",\"aae":"You lose an arm",\"aaf":"You are awarded the bronze star",\"aag":"You are promoted to General",\"aah":"You ship sinks",\"aag":"You are busted out of the army",\"aah":"You plane is shot down",\}
 
---> > Message: 7> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:38:58 +0100> From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Newbie Project part 2...> To: tutor at python.org> Message-ID: <f7b8pb$igs$1 at sea.gmane.org>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";> reply-type=original> > > "Tony Noyeaux" <tnoyeaux at msn.com> wrote in> ---------------------------------------------------------> import random> print "\t\t\t\tLife Simulator"> print "You have just turned 18 years old. Your life awaits,... choices > to be made.."> print "\na)Army,\nb)Navy,\nc)Airforce"> job=raw_input("What will u join?")> if job == "a":> print random.choice(["You win Silver star", "You are killed in > action"])> elif job == "b":> print random.choice(["You fall overboard", "You command you're own > battleship"])> elif job == "c":> print random.choice(["You get shot down", "You become wing > commander"])> > raw_input("\n\nPress Enter to quit.")> ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > > This works fine.> >> > I am having trouble coding in the 2nd question,.. and all subsequent > > questions.> >> > The next Question.. has to be a result of the random result.> > I suggested using a nested dictionary structure to hold the questions.> Did you try that? It should make this a relatively trivial problem.> > I'll show the structure for the example you have given so far:> > questions: {'Q':> {"""> You have just turned 18 years old.> Your life awaits,... choices to be made..> """ : ['Army', 'Navy', 'Airforce']}> {'a':> { 'Q': {#army questions here}> }> 'b':> {> 'Q': {''What kind of ship?': > ['battleship','carrier','tug']},> 'a': { # battleship questions},> 'b': { # carrier questions},> 'c': { # tug questions }> }> 'c':> { 'Q': {# airforce Q here}> }> }> > Obviously keeping the structure clear is critical to success and> a good programmers editor will help balance the braces/quotes etc> > You can extend the structure to have multiple questions at each> stage by simply putting each questoon/answer dictionary in a list.> You could also break the structure to ease layout so for example> three separate instances, one per service. You could> even encapsulate it in a class (I would!)> > You are essentially building a tree structure and then navigating> down it in a part-random, part-deterministic manner.> > -- > Alan Gauld> Author of the Learn to Program web site> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld> > > > > ------------------------------> > _______________________________________________> Tutor maillist - Tutor at python.org> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > > End of Tutor Digest, Vol 41, Issue 56> *************************************
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