LPTHW - Exercise 52

This is the last exercise in the LPTHW book. In this exercise we will create a web based game engine for the Gothon game (the one we created in exercise 42), using the structure we created in exercise 47, along with tests and everything.

The first thing I did was to copy the entire contents of ex47 to ex52. Then I renamed game.py to map.py and made a corresponding change for the test case also. Then I ran 'nosetests' and everything seems to be fine at this stage.

In exercise 42, each room was a function in the Room class. But now in exercise 52, we will make each Room an instance of the Room class. I coded the class map.py (containing all the rooms) as shown in the book. Next, I am going to copy the map_tests.py file as is in the tests directory.

After copying the code in map.py, I created another Python module for messages, called messages.py. This module will contain the initial text for all the rooms, as well as the transition text, which is displayed to the user when they transition from one room to another.

Next, I refactored map_tests.py to test all the rooms, their initial text, and transitions.

The book then explains how lpthw.web maintains sessions. I understand how sessions are managed, but the session variable which seems global to the module confused me, because it makes me think that only one instance of that variable would exist.

I copied the apps.py file in bin, and also fixed a couple of bugs.

I also added two HTML templates - layout.html, show_room.html, and game_lost.html

Part of the code is embedded below: