[Tutor] Using a list

[David]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Doug Reid" <rnrcreid at yahoo.com> wrote
> 
>> The tutorial I'm using is discussing list, tuples, and dictionaries.
>> ...
>> four attributes: Strength,Stamina, Wisdom, and Dexterity.
>> The player should be able to spend points from the pool on
>> any attribute and should also be able to take points from
>> an attribute and put them back into the pool.
> 
> How would you describe a dictionary?
> Can you see a way to apply it to the problem?

> 
> #list of attributes and their values
> attributes=['dexterity=',dexterity ,'strength=',strength, 
> 'stamina=',stamina, 'wisdom=',wisdom]
> 
> It is a list but not of attributes. Its a list containing strings and
> numbers alternating. The strings consist of an attribute name
> and an equals sign. But you know about a collection type that
> stores values against strings and allows you to retrieve those
> values using the string as a key.
> 
> 
> #creation loop
> while creating:
> 
> choice=menu()
> if choice=='0':
>   print '\nThank you for using character creator.'
>   end=raw_input('\n Press enter to end.')
>   creating=False
> elif choice=='1':#prints out list of attributes and their values
>   for entry in attributes:
>      print entry,
> 
> This will print
> 
> attribute=
> value
> attribute=
> value
> 
> Not very pretty. But if you use a dictionary:
> 
> for item in dictionary:
>    print item, '=', dictionary[item]
> 
> elif choice=='2':
> allot=raw_input('''What attribute would you like to change?
> Enter dex for dexterity, str for strength, etc. ''').lower()
> if allot=='dex':
> change=int(raw_input('How many points do you wish to allot? '))
> attributes[1]=dexterity=+change
> points=points-change
> if allot=='str':
> change=int(raw_input('How many points do you wish to allot? '))
> attributes[3]=strength=+change
> 
> And this gets even more messy.
> Again think how it would look with a dictionary...
> 
I am also new to Python and never programed before. I use the questions 
from the Tutor list to learn. I put the attributes into dictionaries and 
  came up with a little game between the user and the computer. Thank 
you Doug for the question.
Here is my attempt;
http://linuxcrazy.pastebin.com/m31d02824

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