Re: [pygame] stupidity, and a lesson learned

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

spotter . wrote:
> Very interesting ideas. The link will be handy for later use. For now,
> I have simply used this format :
>
> name;author;date;version;width;height
>
> and then use split(";") to move them into a list and assign it to
> variables then.
Just thought I'd mention, since the split method returns a list, you 
could do:

name,author,date,version,width,height = astr.split(";")
> Does this seem alright, no glaring things I have missed? It does seem
> to work from
> my small amount of testing that I have put it through.
Yeah, as long as you don't expect any of your values to have semicolons 
in them.
You could always use something strange like chr(245) as the separator, 
and it'd be less likely to occur in your values.
But if you're the one defining these map files anyway, just make sure 
you don't use semicolons.
And make sure you make a  note of that if you give people the ability to 
make custom maps.

Another alternative you could use is defining a Map class and pickling 
the instances.
-Luke

and Richard - you're right, of course.  I didn't notice there weren't 
quotes.