Character-specific variables

[trismegistus]

Let's say I have a lot of different characters, and I want to keep track of certain things about all of them (for example, whether you've met them yet, their opinion of you, that sort of thing). I could just create a separate variable per attribute per character, but that would get messy fast, and be difficult to iterate through, etc. Is there a way I can just add extra attributes to the Character class or something, ideally so I could just set up all these stats at once when I define the character, like:

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define v = Character('Victor', color="#c8ffc8", show_two_window=True, known=False, happiness=10)

...that sort of thing?

I don't know if trying to redefine the Character class is a bad idea, but being able to add onto it would be nice. Or maybe I could create my own class that's just a Character plus other stuff? Or a dictionary that's indexed by character and has all their relevant variables underneath that?

What's the typical way of doing this? It seems like something that would be pretty common, but a quick search of the documentation and this forum didn't turn up much.

Thanks

[trooper6]

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