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Emote utilities for text-based games.

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emote-utils

Emote utilities for text-based games.

This package is most useful for formatting social strings for use with text-based games like MUDs and MOOs.

A social string might look like:

%1N smile%1s at %2n.

Quickstart

First get a factory ready. You could use the base SocialsFactory class or the helpfully-populated PopulatedSocialsFactory.

This second class contains useful english grammar suffixes for properly converting words like are to is and proper use of e and s for use at the end of words.

from emote_utils import PopulatedSocialsFactory
f = PopulatedSocialsFactory()
@f.suffix('n', 'name')
    def get_name(obj, suffix):
        return ('you', obj.name)

Next let's create a test class.

class Person:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

p1 = Person('Jack')
p2 = Person('Jill')

Now we'll get strings which can be sent to Jack, Jill and anyone else who should see the message.

jack_string, jill_string, others_string = f.get_strings('%1N smile%1s at %2n.', [p1, p2])
print(jack_string)

You smile at Jill.

print(jill_string)

Jack smiles at you.

print(others_string)

Jack smiles at Jill.

More advanced usage

Social Formatters

Each social formatter is made up of three parts:

  • a per cent (%) sign representing the start of a social formatter.
  • an optional number indicating the index of the object you wish to reference in the list of objects.
  • An optional filter name preceded by a vertical bar (|).

Defaults

  • If no index is provided, SocialsFactory.default_index is used.
  • If no suffix is provided, SocialsFactory.default_suffix is used.
  • If no filter is provided then one of 3 things will happen.

In the below list suffix refers either to the name of a suffix provided as part of the social string or the default_suffix attribute on the instance of SocialsFactory that get_strings is being called on.

Attribute names refer to the attributes of SocialsFactory that get_strings is being called on.

  • If the suffix is title case then the title_case_filter attribute will be used.
  • If the suffix is all upper case then the upper_case_filter attribute will be used.
  • If neither of these things are true then suffix is assumed to be lower case and the lower_case_filter is used.

Of course any of these names could be None in which case no filtering is applied.

Filters

Here is an example of a custom filter:

f.filters['strong'] = lambda string: f'<strong>{string}</strong>'

If you were printing your socil strings to HTML you could use this filter to make certain parts of the text stand out.

With this filter created, you could do:

%1N punch%1e %2n|strong.

A string might then look like:

John punches Jack.

Conclusion

To see all the other configuration options see the docstrings in the package.

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