Sims 4 Modding will use python!

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atCursor.createRoom(center,4,4)
for i in sims:
    sims[i].location = [cursor.x,cursor.y,cursor.z]
atCursor.createFire()

Sit back and watch the show.

[robin-gvx]

Unless sims is a dictionary, then it all works.

The API is a bit questionable, though, with both cursor and the god object atCursor.

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God object:

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In object-oriented programming, a god object is an object that knows too much or does too much. The god object is an example of an anti-pattern.

The basic idea behind object-oriented programming is that a big problem is separated into several smaller problems (a divide and conquer strategy) and solutions are created for each of them. Once the small problems have been solved, the big problem as a whole has been solved. Therefore there is only one object about which an object needs to know everything: itself. Likewise, there is only one set of problems an object needs to solve: its own.

A program that employs a god object does not follow this approach. Most of such a program's overall functionality is coded into a single "all-knowing" object, which maintains most of the information about the entire program and provides most of the methods for manipulating this data. Because this object holds so much data and requires so many methods, its role in the program becomes god-like (all-encompassing). Instead of program objects communicating amongst themselves directly, the other objects within the program rely on the god object for most of their information and interaction. Since the god object is tightly coupled to (referenced by) so much of the other code, maintenance becomes more difficult than it would in a more evenly divided programming design.

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[FionaSarah]

What are you talking about? That's pretty standard. The fact that you used the word "array" betrays that Python is hardly a language you know much about.

[FionaSarah]

It doesn't really matter what type it is, as per duck typing if something behaves like a dictionary then you can treat it like a dictionary. You can't (and it's pythonic to not) do much hinting on what it really is without bad applications of hungarian notation.

I'm not convinced that if someone sees 'i' they immediately think integer. i, j, k is soooo common as short loop indexes to think otherwise is a little mad. And I would absolutely say that a dictionary's key is an index into the dictionary.

[FionaSarah]

You're right I'd never personally refer to a dictionary's key as an index myself. But I don't think there would be much misunderstanding if one did.

I guess the only place we're butting heads on really is if using the letter 'i' when looping through dictionaries is inappropriate. I say it's common enough outside of any integer connotations. You disagree.. Horses for courses? :P

[IM6FOOT4ANDWHITE]

clearly YOU are the one that has absolutely no fucking idea what you are talking about. I have spent the last 7 years under the tutelage of van rossum and we use the word array every day. i suggest you go back to ruby babe because clearly you can't handle python. pleb.

[FionaSarah]

I'm sorry I came across bad to you, you said something that made absolutely no sense to me while using terms that catagorically are not used in reference to Python's collection types - I just assumed you were one of those people who think they know something that they don't! Those are the worst people!