How do I save a variable in a string, and then save that in a list?-CodePudding

I'm trying to make a choose your own adventure, and I want to save each scenario as a part of a list, for example "scenariolist" would consist of

scenariolist = ['you come to a path split', 'you come to another path split', 'you come to a third path split', etc.]

which the function would then pull up the right scenario based on the length and last number of another list that saves the gamestate.

example

print scenariolist[len(gamestate)]

which, if the player is on the third path split, would print

"you come to a third path split"

what I want to do is be able to have a variable saved in the string with the rest of the line, so like

"Playername comes to a path split".

if playername is set to "bob", when the list element is printed, I want to have it print

"bob comes to a path split"

rather than

"playername comes to a path split" How do I save it so the variable remains callable after being pulled from the list rather than just printing the variable name?

CodePudding user response：

Prompt for the player's name and save the input in a variable named player_name. Then concatenate the player_name with the path string.

player_name = input()

paths =  ['you come to a path split', 'you come to another path split', 'you come to a third path split']

for path in paths:
    print(player_name   " "   path)

Output:

bob you come to a path split
bob you come to another path split
bob you come to a third path split

CodePudding user response：

Try:

scenariolist = ['{playername} comes to a path split', '{playername} comes to another path split', '{playername} comes to a third path split']
playername = 'Bob'
scenarioindex = 0
print(scenariolist[scenarioindex].format(playername=playername))

(where scenarioindex is replaced with something like your len(gamestate) as needed)

References used: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format

CodePudding user response：

Hello you can use python string formatting as follows :

my_variable = "bob"
my_string = "Hi I am {name} nice to meet you!"

print(my_string.format(name=my_variable))
# "Hi I am bob nice to meet you!"

Some documentation here : https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#the-string-format-method