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Ethan Bierlein
Ethan Bierlein

Reputation: 3535

Changing python to read code differently?

When I make text adventures in python for my friends, I am constantly frustrated that I have to code the adventure upward since python reads code from top to bottom. For example:

def stage2():

def stage1():

def start():

Then so on and so forth.. Is there any way that I can make python read the code in a different way so that I can code text adventures from the top up?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (1)

Hugh Bothwell
Hugh Bothwell

Reputation: 56654

You can write your functions in whatever order you like, so long as they are defined before they are called.

For instance,

def start():
    print("Welcome to the adventure")
    stage1()

def stage1():
    print("You made it this far!")
    stage2()

# if you called start() here,
# you would have an error when stage1() tries to call stage2(),
# because the interpreter doesn't know what a stage2 is yet.

def stage2():
    print("Oops - you died.")

start()

works fine.

On the other side of things:

def test():
    if True:
        print("Yup")
    else:
        slartibartfast()

test()

runs fine because the interpreter never gets around to asking what a slartibartfast is ;-)

Upvotes: 4

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