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WhoGivesAFlux
WhoGivesAFlux

Reputation: 15

Text Adventure - Inventory Drop

I am making a rogue-like game and was wondering if there was a way to allow a player to drop an item by entering: Drop [Item Name]

Drop being the command and the item name being one located in your inventory, e.g. if I had a rock that I wanted to get rid of I would input: Drop Rock.

CO = "Rock"

Inventory = {"Slot 1" : "Empty","Slot 2" : "Empty","Slot 3" : "Empty","Slot 4" : "Empty","Slot 5" : "Empty"}

def DROP():

    Slot_Number = int(input("\nInventory Slot to drop: "))
    Slot_Number = str(Slot_Number)
    Slot_Number = ("Slot " + Slot_Number)
    CO = Inventory[Slot_Number]
    Inventory[Slot_Number] = "Empty"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 214

Answers (3)

WhoGivesAFlux
WhoGivesAFlux

Reputation: 15

I took it one step further than @mfitzp and made it all one line of code so that Drop Stick will drop a stick. Here is the code I used:

def DROP(CHOICE):

    global NV

    NV = CHOICE[5:]
    str(NV)

CHOICE = input("\nWhat do you want to do (type Help for list of commands): ")

if CHOICE.startswith("Drop ") or CHOICE.startswith("drop ") or CHOICE.startswith("DROP "):
    DROP(CHOICE)
    if NV in I:
            SN = I.index(NV)
            I[SN] = ""
    CO = NV

Upvotes: 0

mfitzp
mfitzp

Reputation: 15545

Since you're using numbered slots (rather than e.g. "bag", "pocket") a simpler approach would be to use a list for your inventory. You can index into a list, and find items in a list by value, easily.

I would also suggest you use None or at least an empty string "" to represent the empty slot ( as these both equate to False:

Inventory = ["","","","","","",""]

You can then adapt your function as follows:

def DROP():
    Slot_Number = int(input("\nInventory Slot to drop: "))
    Inventory[Slot_Number] = ""

Note that because Python indexing is zero-based, if you want to allow the user to enter 1 for the first slot, rather than 0, you will need to subtract one from the provided value.

def DROP():
    Slot_Number = int(input("\nInventory Slot to drop: "))
    Inventory[Slot_Number-1] = ""

To print the inventory in a nice list you could use something like the following. The i or "Empty" cosntruction might be new to you:

for n, i in enumerate(Inventory):
    print("%d - %s" % (n+1, i or "Empty"))

In i or "Empty" we make use of the falsey value of an empty string together with or shortcutting. If i is True the value in i will be shown, if it is False (e.g. empty string) the value after the or will be printed instead. An equivalent without this would be:

for n, i in enumerate(Inventory):
    if i:
        print("%d - %s" % (n+1, i))    
    else:
        print("%d - Empty" % (n+1))

Finally, an example of a drop_by_name function, where you use .index() to find the location of something in your list Inventory and remove it:

def drop_by_name():
    item_name = input('\nEnter the name of the item to drop: ')
    if item_name in Inventory:
        Slot_Number = Inventory.index(item_name)
        Inventory[Slot_Number] = ""

Upvotes: 1

Hans
Hans

Reputation: 2502

you might want to take a look at cmd, which makes command handling much easier

you can create functions for each command, that are then being called

Upvotes: 0

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