Re: [pygame] Best way to access data

["Lenard Lindstrom" <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Jul 2006 at 10:56, spotter . wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I had a question as to which way would be better to access data after
> loading it into memory.
> 
> The code looks like this now:
>     In the main loop file, I cache the images into dictionaries:
>           images_list = ["enemy.png","player.png"]
>           global cache
>           cache = cacheimages.cache_images(images_list)
> 
>    then in the enemy or player files, I access the images like this:
>          import play
>          self.rect = play.cache["enemy.png"].get_rect()  # I refer to
> the file play and read cache                           from there
> 
> Is it better to read from another file like that? Would there be
> another way to do it that might be better?
> 
> Thanks,
> spot.
> 
Leave out the unnecessary cache and assign directly to global 
variables.

You can do something like this:

    # play module
    import os.path
    images_list = ["enemy.png","player.png"]
    # Load <name>.png files as <name>_image global surfaces
    for file_name in image_list:
        globals()["%s_image" % os.path.splitext(file_name)[0]] = \    
             load_image(file_name)

    # Some other module
    import play
    self.rect = play.enemy_image.get_rect()  # enemy.png image

Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>