List keeps outputting u between strings? (solved)

[noeinan]

I've been writing a class to help generate random npcs for my game, but when I'm testing out the class traits that are lists show up as u"string", u"string" instead of string, string. I'd like to display the individual parts of the list in text without the u and quotations showing up, but I'm not sure how to do that?

Here's the bit where I'm displaying the line:

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    $ racelist = ["human", "elf", "gnome"]
    $ typelist = ["student", "coworker", "stranger"]
    $ procaselist = ["m", "f", "t", "i", "n"]
    $ buildlist = ["ripped", "emaciated"]
    
    "This is a test."
    
    $npc = NPCList(racelist, typelist, procaselist, buildlist, 1)
    
    "Build Desc: [npc.builddesc]"

And here's how it's adding to the string in my class:

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init python:
    enemyno = 0

    class NPCList():

        def __init__(self, racelist, typelist, procaselist, buildlist, level):

            global enemyno

            if enemyno < 5:
                enemyno += 1
                self.num = enemyno
            elif enemyno == 6:
                self.num = enemyno
            else:
                self.num = 0

            self.race = renpy.random.choice(racelist) #Random race as determined by the area

            if self.race == "human" or self.race == "elf":
                self.racesize = 2
            elif self.race == "gnome":
                self.racesize == 1
            else:
                self.racesize == 0



            self.type = renpy.random.choice(typelist) #Context description, like classmate or coworker or stranger

            prorng = renpy.random.randint(1,100)

            if nbchance >= prorng:
                self.procase = "t"
            elif wchance < nbchance and wchance > prorng:
                self.procase = "f"
            elif mchance < nbchance and mchance < wchance and mchance > prorng:
                self.procase = "m"
            else:
                self.procase = renpy.random.choice(procaselist)

            self.builddesc = []
            genrng = renpy.random.randint(1,100)
            
            if twchance >= genrng and self.procase == "f":
                self.builddesc.append("curvy")
            elif self.procase == "f":
                self.builddesc.append("stocky")
            elif tmchance >= genrng and self.procase == "m":
                self.builddesc.append("bulky")
            elif self.procase == "m":
                self.builddesc.append("slender")
            else:
                self.builddesc.append(renpy.random.choice(buildlist))

            self.level = level

later in the code I have the option to add extra descriptions based on certain variables, again just using .append (which is why it's a list and not just a string).


Googling around, it seems like this has something to do with unicode vs ascii vs utf-8? I admit this is new to me so I'm not terribly educated on the topic.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/977 ... -u-in-list

[philat]

Didn't read the whole thing as this is probably just a matter of how you're outputting the list.

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default list1 = ["a", "b", "c"]

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    "[list1]" # simply printing shows the list directly (even without the u', you'd still be getting ["a", "b", "c"] which probably isn't what you'd want
    "[list1[0]]" # accessing any element directly prints normally
    $ temp = ", ".join(list1) # you can use .join() (google for more details) to output list as one string
    "[temp]"

[Remix]

You could smuggle the ", ".join(sequence) bit into your class ...

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            else:
                self.builddesc.append(renpy.random.choice(buildlist))

            self.builddesc_str = ", ".join(self.builddesc)

(or overwrite self.builddesc itself. Perhaps even use the __str__ or __repr__ methods of the class to do the same)

[noeinan]

Thanks for the advice, that seems to work!