renpy.jump with parameter

[trekopedia]

Hi again everyone,

I know that it is possible in renpy script to call a label while passing a parameter. Per the documentation, I could do this:

<code>
call expression "subroutine" pass (count=3)

# ...

label subroutine(count=1):
</code>

Is it also possible to do something similar from python code? How would I pass a parameter from a jump method (renpy.jump()) to the label's code? At the moment, the only option I can think of is to set a global variable prior to the jump and then have that variable checked in the label's code -- but that seems awfully inelegant. Are there any better solutions?

Thanks in advance!

[philat]

Nope. If that feature existed, it would probably be documented.

[Remix]

As philat says, jump has no additional arguments other than just label name passed to it, so cannot support what you want.

Even though call can support extra arguments (as you saw in the docs), it has to know where in the script it is located (so it can return to that point if needed). Therefore, to even effectively do a renpy.ast.Call with bonus parameters you would need to add the filename, linenumber tuple which quickly gets messy and might well glitch save/rollback

Though inelegant, the setting global variable values option does seem the best way to go

[trekopedia]

OK. Thanks. I figured the jump method itself wasn't going to be the solution since it wasn't documented, but I thought perhaps I was missing some similar option. Global variable it is!