current community

your communities

more stack exchange communities

Stack Exchange
tour help
Take the 2-minute tour ×
Programmers Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development. It's 100% free.
up vote 0 down vote favorite

I am having trouble with python. I am making a text-based adventure game, and I am trying to make a restart function when you die. I am trying to count deaths by doing deaths = deaths + 1 whenever you die, but the only way to restart is to re-run the entire script, which resets the death counter. Does anyone know how to restart a script without re-running the program?

share|improve this question
    
Could you persist the data out (akin to bones in nethack) and then let them rerun it, pulling in the updated data? –  MichaelT Jul 18 '13 at 18:13
1  
keep the death counter in the global scope, and put the game script in a procedure. Have a while loop that calls the game script procedure, and then wait for the game to end (either in a death or in a victory, and then handle the result (death: increment deaths, check if player wants to restart -- Victory: display a victory screen and ask to restart) –  Ben313 Jul 18 '13 at 18:21
    
Rerun the script, but make the death count an argument it parses. If not set it defaults to 0, from then on when you restart it give it the new deathcount –  Jimmy Hoffa Jul 18 '13 at 18:27
1  
@Ben313 Thank you so much for your help. My script is running perfectly. –  The Cabbage Jul 18 '13 at 19:19

1 Answer 1

up vote 1 down vote

You can call your script from another script, and when you "restart", use the reload built-in method. 

reload(mymodule)

This isn't truly ideal though for a game. What you're instead looking for is a level loader, with a main loop which handles state.

Does that make any sense? Its a fun challenge building your own level loader, and might be more effort than you want to put in.

share|improve this answer

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.