At 03:49 AM 10/30/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >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]
Done, I think. Seems to be a big improvement. <http://www.rcblue.com/Python/chessTimerForWebV12.py> You'll notice I've given up for the time being on trying to have it useable by unix-ers. This meant that I could use winsound again to get 3 short beeps when a player reaches his time limit and loses. > 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. Well, Kent (and Bob Gailer), thanks for trying to help with classes, but I still don't get them. I've just got to spend time with using classes in much simpler scripts. You guys may think my chessTimer is a piece of cake, but it stretched me a lot even without classes. >>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? I answered this earlier, in my post of Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:25:45 -0700 . Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
