Re: [pygame] bidimensional arrays or the quick way to maps

[Jasper <jasper@xxxxxxxx>]

> > The dictionary approach is what I use as well.  It has some nice 
> > touches, such as the ability to have non-square maps without using 
> > "this cell is illegal" filler, and the ability to work in special 
> > case cells that are outside of the standard grid coords.  The 
> > resulting code tends to be more readable as well, as you can use 
> > expressions like "if cellLoc in tileMap:", rather than "x,y = 
> > cellLoc", "if tileMap[x][y] != None and 0 <= x <= WIDTH and 0 <= y <= 
> > HEIGHT".
> >
> > The downside is you can't use array slicing tricks (especially the 
> > funkier NumPy ones), but in practice that doesn't seem to be 
> > something you need for Tile Maps.
> >
> > -Jasper
>
> thanks to you all, it is working beautifully ^__^


Oh yeah, one more minor point.  Perhaps I'm the only one daft enough to 
forget about map() in the heat of the moment, but avoid naming anything 
"map", which Python will happily let you do!  I'm still picking stinky 
remnants of this out of my code. :-/

-Jasper