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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dungeon Game Win or Lose

Brecht Philips
Brecht Philips
8,863 Points
Posted by Brecht Philips
Brecht Philips
8,863 Points

Globals variables Dungeon game

Hi I changed the dungeon game sow that the monster alsow moves when the player moves! This part works but i also made the map size dynamical with a global size

Now i bumped on this is i set the map size to 5 everything works but when i play again cause i defeated the game and enter again 5 for map size it increments the global variable to 10

Can somebody help me??

My code is on github if anybody wants to look at it

https://github.com/brechtPhilips/Python/tree/master/MonsterGame

Ps: how do you tag Kenneth Love in this message?

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
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I can tag Kenneth Love for you :)

Also, Chris Freeman has some sweet answers on Python :smile:

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

CELLS is mutable and you never reset it, so you're just adding five onto it each time (if you made the size 5 and then 3, I bet it would go to 8 the second run through).

Brecht Philips
Brecht Philips
8,863 Points
Brecht Philips
Brecht Philips
8,863 Points

Thanks kenneth Now it work's fine what aan stupid thing to look over ?

Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Not stupid at all! You'd be amazed at how many people get tripped up by using mutables as defaults.

For example, try this out:

def add_list(default=[]):
    default.append(1)
    return default

add_list()
add_list()
add_list()

What do you end up with? Why?

hamsternation
hamsternation
26,616 Points

I read something about functions being evaluated when they're defined and the mutable object is a part of the function and therefore retains its mutable nature within the function throughout calls. (kind of like how even though tuples are immutable, lists within tuples ARE mutable still. Here the function is kind of like the tuple, and the lists are kind of like the default parameter [a list])

So during every call, the default (mutable list) is appended and the default changes with every execution of the function.

Is there a way to reconstruct a function to reset the default parameter back to []? Or do you have to reconstruct the function?

I'm sure there's an answer on the interwebs somewhere, but how would you have a mutable default that resets? What are some practical scenarios that having a mutable default that resets be useful?

I just started python like a week ago, sorry if none of my question make sense. -_-