Adding all stats as a group?

[MelMeiko]

I have a long list of variables that deal with the categories of "lies" "neutral" and "honesty", but they aren't specified that way (as a group).
These variables are shortened character names followed by category.

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# The game starts here.
label start:

    $ vilie = 2
    $ vitruth = 2
    $ vinu = 0
    $ caplie = 0
    $ capnu = 2
    $ captruth = 0
    $ justlie = 0
    $ justtruth = 0
    $ justnu = 4
    $ judtruth = 0
    $ judlie = 0
    $ judnu = 0
    $ avlie = 0
    $ avtruth = 5
    $ avnu = 0
    $ angellie = 0
    $ angeltruth = 0
    $ angelnu = 0
    $ belielie = 0
    $ belietruth = 1
    $ belienu = 0
    $ altruth = 0
    $ alnu = 0
    $ allie = 0
    $ amphilie = 0
    $ amphitruth = 2
    $ amphinu = 0
    $ sabirlie = 0
    $ sabirtruth = 0
    $ sabirnu = 0

How can I condense these to show the player how many lies, truths and neutral choices they've made? Is there a way to implement ren'py math to add up all the truth, neutral and lie numbers?

And if that can't be done or is too complicated for a beginner like me to do (lol), then how do I just show stats to the player? Like with

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$ amphitruth = 2

,how do I show them that with this Amphi character, they've been truthful to twice?

Thanx for looking!

[LordShiranai]

You could do this multiple ways to make it easier on yourself.

One easier way would be to store values in a dictionaries. For a simplified example, we have two characters: Bob and George.

We initialize them at the very start of the script.

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$ truth = {'Bob': 0, 'George': 0}
$ lies = {'Bob': 0, 'George': 0}

Then, for example, if you ever tell the truth to Bob, you can do the following to increment that value:

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$ truth['Bob'] += 1

Or we can lie to George...

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$ lies['George'] += 1

If you want to know the number of total times you told the truth to Bob, you can just get that value by calling truth['Bob']

Now, if you want to get the total every time you told the truth or lied to all characters, you can declare a function like this in an init block and then call it to get the total of any dictionary which has valui. (I don't think Python has a builtin function for this.)

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def dict_total(dict):
    x = 0
    for i in dict.values():
        x += i
    return x

Then call it in your code by using dict_total(truth) or dict_total(lies)

[Jake]

(I don't think Python has a builtin function for this.)

As it goes, it does; sum will add up all the items in an interable, and lists (what you get out of the dict.values() method) are iterable.

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>>> truth = {'Alice': 10, 'Bob': 7, 'Charlie':15}
>>> sum(truth.values())
32