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From: Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 02:56:08 +0100
Subject: Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this
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On 6 August 2013 02:01, <gratedmedia@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I currently working on a game, where I need to maintain a running tally of
> money, as the player makes purchases as they navigate thru game.   I not
> exactly sure how to do this in python.  I know it is a fairly basic step,
> nonetheless.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>

If I understand correctly you want to store the amount of money in a
variable as a number that can be changed from many places within the code.

Say you have:

    money = 0

    def do_some_adventuring():
        ... # Add some money

You can "add some money" with:

        global money # Allow changing money from within the function
        money += 10 # for example

Is that it?

----

Note that normally you'd have some class of player with a money attribute
which can be accessed, but as a guess from the question I'm not sure you
know about classes yet.

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On 6 August 2013 02:01,  <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"=
mailto:gratedmedia@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">gratedmedia@gmail.com</a>&g=
t;</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><=
blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px=
 #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<br>
I currently working on a game, where I need to maintain a running tally of =
money, as the player makes purchases as they navigate thru game. =C2=A0 I n=
ot exactly sure how to do this in python. =C2=A0I know it is a fairly basic=
 step, nonetheless. =C2=A0Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.<br>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If I understand correctly you want to stor=
e the amount of money in a variable as a number that can be changed from ma=
ny places within the code.</div><div><br></div><div>Say you have:</div>

<div><br></div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 money =3D 0</div><div><br></div><div>=C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 def do_some_adventuring():</div><div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=
 ... # Add some money</div><div><br></div><div>You can &quot;add some money=
&quot; with:</div><div><br></div><div>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 global money # Allow changing money from within=
 the function</div>
<div>=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 money +=3D 10 # for example</div><div><br>=
</div><div>Is that it?</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div><br></div><d=
iv>Note that normally you&#39;d have some class of player with a money attr=
ibute which can be accessed, but as a guess from the question I&#39;m not s=
ure you know about classes yet.</div>

</div></div></div>

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