Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Michael Dunn
Hi Luke, > Is there a way to preserve the readability of the code and have > printed text from indented blocks, say, nested conditionals, appear > flush at left, not printed exactly where I've written them in the > script? you can use the textwrap module for this. >>> from textwrap import dedent

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Mill
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:23:28 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Mill wrote: > >>class foo: > >>def bar(self): > > > > > > Sorry, I forgot that if it's in the module, you should declare prompt1 > > as global by using "global prompt1" right here. > > > > > >>print promp

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Danny Yoo
> > > > I'm writing a simple game (run in command line) in which narrative > > > > text is printed in response to a user's decisions. The problem I'm > > > > running into is that triple quotes used in an indented block > > > > preserves the indentation when it prints. [text cut] > > > Why not j

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Kent Johnson
Bill Mill wrote: class foo: def bar(self): Sorry, I forgot that if it's in the module, you should declare prompt1 as global by using "global prompt1" right here. print prompt1 % (var1, var2, var3) No, you only need the global statement if you want to assign to a global variable. Read-on

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Luke Jordan
Execllent. Many Thanks, Luke On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:15:41 -0500, Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:14:13 -0500, Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:02:44 -0800, Luke Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > >

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Mill
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:14:13 -0500, Bill Mill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:02:44 -0800, Luke Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've tried a lot of experimenting and searching through various > > tutorials, and I haven't been able to come up with a solution

Re: [Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Mill
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:02:44 -0800, Luke Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tried a lot of experimenting and searching through various > tutorials, and I haven't been able to come up with a solution to this, > ostensibly simple, problem. > > I'm writing a simple game (run in com

[Tutor] Print text position problems when using triple quotes

2005-02-24 Thread Luke Jordan
Hi all, I've tried a lot of experimenting and searching through various tutorials, and I haven't been able to come up with a solution to this, ostensibly simple, problem. I'm writing a simple game (run in command line) in which narrative text is printed in response to a user's decisions. The prob