Dick Moores wrote:
>>> 2. I've used 1 for White player, -1 for Black player, and (-1)*player
>>> to alternate players. Is there a better way?
>>> 3. I've used a lot of variables. Too Many?
>>
>> I think it might work well to either put the player variables into
>> lists or simple classes.
>
> I have no confidence with classes, but how about this for lists:
>
> playerName = ['', 'White', 'Black']
> moveCounter = [0, whiteMoveCounter, blackMoveCounter}
> remainingPlayerTime = [0, remainingWhiteTime, remainingBlackTime]
> Is that something like what you were thinking?
No. I was thinking more like this:
whitePlayer = [ 'White', whiteMoveCounter, remainingWhiteTime]
blackPlayer = [ 'Black', blackMoveCounter, remainingBlackTime]
You could even define offsets:
NAME = 0
MOVES = 1
TIME = 2
and refer to
currentPlayer[NAME]
From here to simple classes is not a big step:
class player(object):
def __init__(self, name, moveCounter, remainingTime):
self.name = name
self.moveCounter = moveCounter
self.remainingTime = remainingTime
whitePlayer = player('White', 1, timeLimit)
blackPlayer = player('Black', 1, timeLimit)
Then playerName(player) becomes player.name and
remainingPlayerTime(player) becomes player.remainingTime.
> Any thoughts about my number 6?: "I thought I had a way to make this
> script useable on unix as well
> as Windows. Thus the section with the 3 classes. But it won't run on
> unix, because it was necessary to import msvcrt outside of the
> classes--it wouldn't compile otherwise, and because of the need for
> the line 'if msvcrt.kbhit():'
Why do you need to call kbhit() at all? Why not just call getch() and
wait for the next character?
Kent
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