Problem with renpy.reload_script

[sine12]

Hello, I am new to here (sorry for the bad english, this is not my first language)
Currently, I am working on a game which kinda like DDLC.
The player have to delete a file and the game should be able to know and show some dialogue like "oh you deleted me".
I use the renpy.loadable("file") to make these work, but its not working well as i have to reload the script in order to let the game knows the file is missing.

So, I use renpy.reload_script() function before the if loadable statement to force the game to reload.

However, this function makes the game gets stuck. It just keeps reloading the script and saving the game(the screen keep refreshing, I m not sure).
I am wondering if I use reload_script wrong or is there a better way to do this?
sorry for my bad English again...

[PyTom]

I'd suggest not doing this. If you're going to look for the existence or absence of a file, a reasonable way to do it is:

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init python:
    import os


while os.path.exists(os.path.join(config.basedir, "game/fakeout.txt")):
     "You didn't delete me!"

The renpy.reload_script function is developer functionality, and I'm not going to support is as part of an actual game mechanic. (And deleting .rpy files is similarly forbidden - Ren'Py caches and uses them, and I don't want to support games that remove content from a released game at runtime.)

[sine12]

I'd suggest not doing this. If you're going to look for the existence or absence of a file, a reasonable way to do it is:

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init python:
    import os


while os.path.exists(os.path.join(config.basedir, "game/fakeout.txt")):
     "You didn't delete me!"

The renpy.reload_script function is developer functionality, and I'm not going to support is as part of an actual game mechanic. (And deleting .rpy files is similarly forbidden - Ren'Py caches and uses them, and I don't want to support games that remove content from a released game at runtime.)

Thanks! This is much better!