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typeclasses/oatmeal.py

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+"""
+Tracery Object
+
+This is a joke object that changes its description every time you look at it.
+Requires installing pytracery as a pip dependency.
+
+As Kate Compton puts it: "I can easily generate 10,000 bowls of plain oatmeal, with each oat being in a different position and different orientation, and mathematically speaking they will all be completely unique.  But the user will likely just see a lot of oatmeal."
+
+This relies on default Tracery and does not have a model memory (i.e. you cannot procgen object attributs based on its description and vice versa).
+"""
+from typeclasses.objects import Object
+import tracery
+from tracery.modifiers import base_english
+
+"""
+An oatmeal object has an "origin" attribute.
+You make a table of rules with attributes, like:
+
+    set movie/origin:rules = ['This is #genre.a# #movie# about #subject.s#.', '#subject.s.capitalize# #sequel#: The #family.capitalize# Of All #movie.s.capitalize#!']  
+
+The table has to have category "rules" and the main entry point is called "origin". The rest is up to you:
+
+    set movie/sequel:rules = ['from hell #number#','#number#','the Resurrection','Origins','Rebooted','Reimagined','Again']
+    set movie/family:rules = ['mother','father','aunt','xyther','grunkle','grandpa','grandma']
+    set movie/number:rules = ['2','3','4','5','6','II','III','IV','V','VI','XXIII','MCMXCIII']
+    set movie/movie:rules = ['movie', 'flick', 'animation', 'anime', 'moving picture', 'picture']
+    set movie/genre:rules = ['action', 'romance', 'thriller', 'horror', 'abstract', 'slice-of-life', 'comedy', 'documentary']
+    set movie/subject:rules = ['wombat', '#pair# love #polycule#', 'smartphone', 'astronaut', 'explosion']
+    set movie/pair:rules = ['gay','aromantic','nonbinary','clueless','crazy']
+    set movie/polycule:rules = ['triange', 'pair', '3D icosahedron', 'polycule']
+
+And you'll get stuff like "Crazy love polycules Reimagined: The Father Of All Animations!"
+"""
+class OatmealObject(Object):
+    """
+    Can't be a self.db.desc because we *need* a function here.
+    """
+    def get_display_desc(self, looker, **kwargs):
+        rules = {}
+        attrs = self.attributes.get(category='rules', return_obj=True)
+        for attr in attrs:
+            v = attr.value.deserialize()
+            if isinstance(v, list) or isinstance(v, str):
+                rules[attr.key] = v
+        if rules == {}:
+            return "No set of rules detected. Set the intro point with: |wset object/origin:rules = 'text'|n"
+        grammar = tracery.Grammar(rules)
+        grammar.add_modifiers(base_english)
+        return grammar.flatten("#origin#")
+    pass

typeclasses/single/moviescreen.py

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-"""
-Movie Screen
-
-This is a joke object that changes its description every time you look at it.
-Requires installing pytracery as a pip dependency.
-"""
-from typeclasses.objects import Object
-import tracery
-from tracery.modifiers import base_english
-
-class MovieScreen(Object):
-    rules = {
-        'origin': ['This is #genre.a# #movie# about #subject.s#.', '#subject.s.capitalize# #sequel#: The #family.capitalize# Of All #movie.s.capitalize#!'],
-        'sequel': ['from hell #number#','#number#','the Resurrection','Origins','Rebooted','Reimagined','Again'],
-        'family': ['mother','father','aunt','xyther','grunkle','grandpa','grandma'],
-        'number': ['2','3','4','5','6','II','III','IV','V','VI','XXIII','MCMXCIII'],
-        'movie': ['movie', 'flick', 'animation', 'anime', 'moving picture', 'picture'],
-        'genre': ['action', 'romance', 'thriller', 'horror', 'abstract', 'slice-of-life', 'comedy', 'documentary'],
-        'subject': ['wombat', 'stoner', '#pair# love #polycule#', 'smartphone', 'astronaut', 'explosion'],
-        'pair': ['gay','aromantic','nonbinary','clueless','crazy'],
-        'polycule': ['triange', 'pair', '3D icosahedron', 'polycule']
-    }
-
-    """
-    Can't be a self.db.desc because we *need* a function here.
-    """
-    def get_display_desc(self, looker, **kwargs):
-        grammar = tracery.Grammar(self.rules)
-        grammar.add_modifiers(base_english)
-        return grammar.flatten("#origin#")
-    pass