[SOLVED] trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

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[SOLVED] trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

#1 Post by ninjaK4T_06 »

I'm using this post to make random characters, but every time I try to see them by just putting-

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label start:
    "[random_characters]"
it poops this out into the textbox:

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[<store.Person object at0x0ED2 5FF0>, <store.Person object at 0x0ED2 5A30>, ... ] 
and it goes on 5 total times, since that's how many characters I'm trying to make.

I read this, specifically Milkymalk's long answer; I think that's what is my problem is, but I am very newb so I'm don't to know how to solve it >_<'''

So I would very much appreciate help!
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Re: trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

#2 Post by Remix »

amend Person to include a __repr__ (or __str__ if you prefer)

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    class Person(object):

        def __init__(self, name, gender, age):

            self.name = name
            self.gender = gender
            self.age = age

        def __repr__(self):
            return "Person: ({}, {}, {})".format(
                self.name,
                self.gender,
                self.age )
You might also want a !q in your interpolation (to escape any braces) "[random_characters!q]"
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Re: trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

#3 Post by ninjaK4T_06 »

Remix wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:06 am amend Person to include a __repr__ (or __str__ if you prefer)

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    class Person(object):

        def __init__(self, name, gender, age):

            self.name = name
            self.gender = gender
            self.age = age

        def __repr__(self):
            return "Person: ({}, {}, {})".format(
                self.name,
                self.gender,
                self.age )
You might also want a !q in your interpolation (to escape any braces) "[random_characters!q]"
This worked perfectly, thank you very much!! :D

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Re: trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

#4 Post by trooper6 »

Remix wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:06 am You might also want a !q in your interpolation (to escape any braces) "[random_characters!q]"
Hey Remix! I tried to google it, but !q is not particularly easy to google. Could you explain !q a bit more? When exactly would one want to use this and how does it work?
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Re: trying to see a list but it only says <store.Person object ...> ???

#5 Post by Remix »

trooper6 wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 4:56 pm
Remix wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:06 am You might also want a !q in your interpolation (to escape any braces) "[random_characters!q]"
Hey Remix! I tried to google it, but !q is not particularly easy to google. Could you explain !q a bit more? When exactly would one want to use this and how does it work?
Of course:

Imagine you had:

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default my_dict = {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}

label start:

    "[my_dict]"
Result:
Exception: Unknown text tag u"u'a': 1, u'c': 3, u'b': 2"

This is because Ren'Py does the interpolation before it does formatting and characters like { and % (and maybe others) are thought to be text tags, format identifiers or the like.
Rather than doing $ my_dict_output = str(my_dict).replace('{', {{').replace('%', '%%') we just add the !q after our variable name and Ren'Py does the clever stuff for us.

More: https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/text ... ating-data
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