Arrays in Ren'Py

[Mew151]

Sorry if I sound like a newb, (because I am a newb to ren'py programming) but how do you make arrays in Ren'py?

I want to store information about things in an array, and, if I can (but it's not required) a multidimensional array.

Please assist; there was nothing I could find on the wiki.

[KimiYoriBaka]

Well, firstly you're looking in the wrong spot. Something like arrays isn't going to be part of ren'py's abilities, it would be in python (which is quite easily googled, but by far harder to read through documentation wise).

I don't know how you would use actual arrays, but you can use lists the same way. The main difference is that list don't have a set number of slots or a set type of elements. The downside however, is that they are kind of awkward if arrays are what you're used to.

Here's an example of what it would look like in ren'py:

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python:
   example_list = [0, 3, 2]
   example_list.append(5)
   example_list.append("string")

after this code example_list would be [0, 3, 2, 5, "string"]

For multidimensional arrays, you just add nested lists to the list like so:

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python:
   example_list = []
   example_list.append([2,3,4])
   example_list.append([0,1])

Here, the resulting list is [[2,3,4],[0,1]]

Then to access the elements of a list, use the name of the list followed by brackets telling which element you want (indexed starting at 0, just like arrays normally are). To access an element in a nested list, add another pair of brackets immediately after the first like so:

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example_list[1][2]

I hope that's easier to understand than whatever the documentation said...

[chileanchimp]

and how i can eliminate one exact element? for example if i have ['1','3','2','5'] and i want to remove only '2'?

EDIT: so, i manage to find that answer in one of python tutorials.

if you have

$ places = ["house", "street", "university", "bar"]

and you want to remove one, just:

$ places.remove("street")

and it should be gone

[Arpie]

This page explains a lot about lists:

http://effbot.org/zone/python-list.htm

It helped me!

[richycapy]

Hi,

Is there a way to count the number of elements inside an Array?

[Per K Grok]

Hi,

Is there a way to count the number of elements inside an Array?

You can get the number of items in a list with len() in python
x=len(yourlist)

[rayminator]

Array are for PHP and MySQL

Note: Python does not have built-in support for Arrays, but Python Lists can be used instead.

stated here
https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_arrays.asp

[drKlauz]

Not exactly true, there are bytearrays what can store bytes, and with ctypes/structure you can get proper arrays of pretty much any kind. Tho that would be un-pythonic