Hugo Arts wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have a 2d list being used for a battleship game. I have structured
the program so that it uses a grid class, which implements this array
along with a bunch of other methods and vars. For example, to get at
the top left square, you would say:
Grid.getSquareAt(0,0)
and inside getSquareAt is simply:
def getSquareAt(self, x, y):
return self.b[x][y] #b is the internal 2d list for the class
However, I am getting very confused with indexing. I keep getting
errors about list index out of range and I am not sure why. I have a
feeling that using 2d lists is supposed to go like a matrix
(row,column) and not like a coordinate plane (column, row).
A 2D list doesn't really exist. What you're using is just a list whose
elements are also lists. A nested data structure. And whether those
sub-lists should be the rows or the columns? It doesn't matter. A list
is just a list. Sequential data elements. It doesn't care whether it
represents a row or a column. What are 'row' and 'column' anyway? just
words designating some arbitrary notion. Conventions. You can swap one
for the other, and the data remains accessible. As long as you're
consistent, there's no problem.
The real problem is something else entirely. Somewhere in your code,
you are using an index that is greater than the size of the list.
Perhaps you're not consistent, somewhere. Mixing up your row/column
order. Perhaps something else is amiss. No way to tell from the
snippet.
Hugo
My question would be how are you creating these lists, and how you're
updating them. If you're doing a 20x20 board, are you actually creating
20 lists, each of size 20, in instance attribute b ? Do you do that in
the __init__() constructor? Or are you doing some form of "sparse
array" where you only initialize the items that have ships in them?
As for updating, are you always doing the update by assigning to
self.b[row][col] ?
You could always add a try/catch to the spot that crashes, and in the
catch clause, temporarily print out the subscripts you're actually
seeing. As Hugo says, you could simply have values out of range.
DaveA
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