Python Programming

You can also write your own module, and import your module from another script.

Copy the following code, and save it as libmonster.py.

FACTOR = 5

class Monster:
    def __init__(self, name="Me", food="cookies"):
        self.name = name
        self.food = food


def spawn_monsters():
    return [Monster("Happy", "carrots"), 
            Monster("Bashful", "ice-creams"), 
            Monster("Wild", "cookies")]


def calculate_growthrate(adjustment=3):
    return 25 * FACTOR + adjustment

If you run this script (i.e. python3 libmonster.py), nothing will happen (obviously, since these are all just definitions).

import libmonster

print(libmonster.FACTOR)

print(libmonster.calculate_growthrate(2))

monsters = libmonster.spawn_monsters()

new_monster = libmonster.Monster("Crazy", "sashimi")
monsters.append(new_monster)

for monster in monsters:
    print(f"{monster.name} love {monster.food}!")

So, you now have a module called libmonster that you can import from any script (in our case, in game.py) 👾👾