On Thursday, 4 October 2012 08:41:35 UTC+5:30, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> pHello all:
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> I've seen frameworks like django reload files when it detects that
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> they've been changed; how hard would it be to make my engine reload
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> files that it detects were changed? I'm also curious how hard it would
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> be to build in some error recovery. For example right now when an
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> exception occurs, the player is sometimes just left hanging. It's a lot
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> harder with Python for me, because I don't get the compile-time errors
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> that I would with c++ for example to know that I did something wrong;
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> while that's not always useful/and by far it doesn't catch everything,
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> it does help. I'm familiar with things like pychecker, but it seems to
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> be reporting a lot of issues that aren't issues. For example, I have a
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> world module which is the core of the engine; it handles players, as
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> well as keeps tracks of all rooms that are loaded in the game and that.
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> Because player and world would have circular imports, I just pass the
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> world object into player functions like logon/create. Pychecker tells me
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> that the world parameter (which is a local var at that point) shadows
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> the world variable in world; world is a singleton, so when you import
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> world it just has a world = World() at the bottom of the module.
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> also: I have the following code:
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> logging.basicConfig(filename=path.join("logs", "mud.log"),
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> level=logging.DEBUG)
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> logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
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> logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
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> I like it displaying to stderr since usually when I'm doing this I'm in
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> screen bouncing back and forth between the output and the tt++ session,
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> but right now I can't get a couple of things; I'm not sure how to set it
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> to log and all other messages to stderr as I did for the file, and I'd
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> like to use a rotating log handler so that it'll rotate when the files
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> are say above 16 KB or something. Is it possible to do something like
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> this; perhaps make it compress the file before it writes to disk, or
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> call a command to do so, so that it wouldn't hang the entire mud while
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> it compresses?
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> Thanks, and sorry again for all the questions.
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>
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> --
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> Take care,
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> Ty
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> http://tds-solutions.net
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> The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
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> http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
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> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that
> dares not reason is a slave.
I use pylint with NINJA IDE. NINJA IDE automatically shows common problems.
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