Turning lists into strings in ren'py variables.

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Turning lists into strings in ren'py variables.

#1 Post by Zeroized »

Greetings.
I've made a randomizer for the height and the eye color of some NPCs and putting the results in variables, however, the variables aren't being displayed right in the game. I'm assuming that I'm assigning them wrong.

Using the following code:

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$ eyecolorlist = ["red", "blue", "green"]
$ random = renpy.random.randint(0, 2)
$ eyecolor = eyecolorlist[random]

"The character has [eyecolor] eyes"
I'm getting "The character has red eyes", which is the intended result.

However, using this code:

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$ eyecolorlist = ["red", "blue", "green"]
$ random = renpy.random.randint(0, 2)
$ eyecolor = eyecolorlist[random], "eyes"

"The character has [eyecolor]"
I'm getting "The character has ('red', 'eyes')". I think that maybe Ren'py thinks that the second eyecolor variable is a list, while the first is a string. If that's the case, how can turn that list into a string?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Turning lists into strings in ren'py variables.

#2 Post by Asceai »

The problem is that the comma makes it a tuple.
$ eyecolor = eyecolorlist[random] + " eyes"

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Re: Turning lists into strings in ren'py variables.

#3 Post by Zeroized »

Oh, I see. I will use + to concatenate the strings then. Thanks for your help.

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