If, elif points and lots of multiple love interests

[bunny-gypsy]

Sorry if this has been asked before, and I read the How to Make a Simple Otome tutorial and the Ren'py Quickstart tutorial, but
I'm a little confused. The Otome tutorial is really great, since the programming stuff on Ren'py wiki is a bit confusing to me.

I'm doing a simple Halloween Otome (it's my first Ren'py VN) and I'm going to use relationship points like the Otome tutorial.
I have 8 love interests (who you get points with by talking or giving gifts).

The tutorial says for the endings, you type, for example:
(Excuse my terrible spacing, just wanted to quickly show examples)

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if brandonpoints>chrispoints:
               call brandonending

           elif chrispoints>brandonpoints:
               call chrisending 

and so on...

But what happens if you have lots of multiple love interests?
Do you keep saying "if" and "elif" for every one of the different love interests?

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                  if mummypoints>zombiepoints:
                        call mummyending
 
                 elif mummypoints>werewolfpoints:
                         call mummyending

                 elif mummypoints>fishboypoints:
                         call mummyending
                  #etc....

             #And then do this for every love interest?
                        if zombiepoints>fishboypoints:
                           call zombieending       

                        elif zombiepoints>werewolfpoints:
                            call zombieending
 

Is there a more streamlined way to do this, or should I figure what their total points are and use that, like:

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               if zombiepoints >= 10:
                   call zombieending

[AxemRed]

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if mummypoints > max(zombiepoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):

ps: Make sure you don't forget to handle the case where all points are equal.

[bunny-gypsy]

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if mummypoints > max(zombiepoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):

ps: Make sure you don't forget to handle the case where all points are equal.

Ooh, that looks like what I'm looking for! Thank you very much. Just to verify, "max" means "maximum", yes?

So, for equal cases, it would look like this?:

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                         if mummypoints == max(zombiepoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):
                                call mummyending

              #And then do this for every love interest?
                        if zombiepoints == max(mummypoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):
                                call zombieending
                       #etc...

[AxemRed]

Yes, max is maximum.

You can write the whole condition in one big if/else chain.

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if mummypoints > max(zombiepoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):
    call mummyending
elif zombiepoints > max(mummypoints, werewolfpoints, fishboypoints):
    call zombieending
else:
    call neutralending

[bunny-gypsy]

Oh, wow! That looks very clean and simple. =3 Thanks, AxemRed!

I'm finding that I am loving the coding when I can actually understand it.... XD