Re: [Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples (bob gailer)

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Gauld
"Robert Sjöblom" wrote Why would you want to sum them? You start with 30 points in the pool, then allocate them to the attributes. The sum will still be 30. Because the user should be able to spend 30 points, or remove points from an attribute and get them back in the pool. Like so: attrib

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples (bob gailer)

2010-11-23 Thread Robert Sjöblom
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, wrote: > Send Tutor mailing list submissions to >        tu...@python.org > [snip] >> Ok, I'm clearly thinking in circles here. I used the interpreter to >> figure out that both are fine but the first example has integers, >> whereas the second has strings. Good

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples

2010-11-21 Thread bob gailer
On 11/21/2010 6:29 PM, Robert Sjöblom wrote: Hi. I'm new at programming and, as some others on this list, am going through Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. In the current chapter (dealing with lists and dictionaries), one of the challenges is to: Write a Character Creator program fo

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples

2010-11-21 Thread Robert Sjöblom
[Snip] >> I don't want a direct answer on how to proceed, but a question that >> arose during my thinking of the problem was whether dictionaries can >> have integral data in them, like so: >> attributes = {"Strength" : 28, "Health" : 12} >> or if they have to be: >> attributes = {"Strength" : "28"

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Arts
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Robert Sjöblom wrote: > Hi. I'm new at programming and, as some others on this list, am going > through Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. In the current > chapter (dealing with lists and dictionaries), one of the challenges > is to: >>Write a Character

[Tutor] Help regarding lists, dictionaries and tuples

2010-11-21 Thread Robert Sjöblom
Hi. I'm new at programming and, as some others on this list, am going through Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. In the current chapter (dealing with lists and dictionaries), one of the challenges is to: >Write a Character Creator program for a role-playing game. The player should >be g