Store Inventory Items in separate file?

[K-Mistele]

Currently, potions and inventory items are stored in adventure.py Could they be stored in a separate file without creating a circular dependency?

The file would need to import inventory_classes.py, but would still need a way to put the inventory items into the player's inventory in adventure.py

[K-Mistele]

Hmm. based on how code is written now, this would be less than optimal. It would be extremely difficult to do without creating circular dependencies. Thoughts?

[Michael-Naguib]

We can just create a load inventory function that accepts a name and a save inventory function that writes to a file in csv or json or even plaintext...

[K-Mistele]

@Michael-N I'm not sure I understand what you're saying there....

[Michael-Naguib]

@K-Mistele Create a inventory.py with class inventory

Here is some pseudo code for how it might be implemented in adventure.py to clean up the spaghetti code ect...

# does not contain the players inventory ... just loads it from a separate txt file
import Inventory 

# playerInventory now represents the players inventory data
playerInventory = Inventory('<playername>-inventory.txt')

# use and auto update the inventory
playerInventory.use('<potionName>', instanceArgs=[passedVar,suchAs, playerObject]) # calls a potion class function associated with that name else raises an error or exception

#save changes made to the inventory to the file
playerInventory.save()

# this code prepares for resuming games, as well as minifies spaghetti code and makes inventory more manageable 

This will involve serializing classes and reconstructing a few