plus, when hand-editing, they're nicely syntax-highlighted for you, which
can help you immediately find little mistakes.
I've done my level data files and my animation data files this way. I
guess it's sort of a declarative programming approach.
-sjbrown
On 7/18/05, kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not store the room data more simply in a text format, or XML, or
Pickle? No need to worry about building a mini-compiler into your program,
and depending on your format it may be much more space-efficient and
easier to edit with a custom "room editor" program.
Using plain Python syntax for data is very convenient and has lots of
good points. And you don't need to implement the parser and compiler
yourself, they come included in Python. Some sort of pickle might be
nice if you need to edit the files in a custom editor, but for
hand-editing, the Python syntax is probably close to the nicest thing
you can get.