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Asked: 2026-06-07T05:28:38+00:00

I am currently building a MUD (Multi-User-Domain) for an rpg game. Doing this entirely

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I am currently building a MUD (Multi-User-Domain) for an rpg game. Doing this entirely in Python to both make a game I enjoy, and learn python. A problem I am running in to, and due to the extreme specificity of the question, I’ve been unable to find the right answer.

So, here’s what I need, in a nut-shell. I don’t have a good snippet of code that fully shows what I need as I’d have to paste about 50 lines to have to 5 lines I’m using make sense.

targetOptions = ['Joe', 'Bob', 'zombie', 'Susan', 'kobold', 'Bill']

A cmd in our game is attack, where we type ‘a zombie’ and we then proceed to kill the zombie. However, I want to just type ‘a z’. We’ve tried a few different things in our code, but they’re all unstable and often just wrong. One of our attempts returned something like [‘sword’, ‘talisman’] as matches for ‘get sword’. So, is there a way to search this list and have it return a matched value?

I also need to just return value[0] if there are say, 2 zombies in the room and I type ‘a z’. Thanks for all your help ahead of time, and I hope I was clear enough for what I’m looking for. Please let me know if more info is needed. And don’t worry about the whole attacking thing, I just need to send ‘zo’ and get ‘zombie’ or something similar. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Welcome to SO and Python! I suggest you take a look at the official Python documentation and spend some time looking around what’s included in the Python Standard Library.

    The difflib module contains a function get_close_matches() that can help you with approximate string comparisons. Here’s how it looks like:

    from difflib import get_close_matches

    def get_target_match(target, targets):
    '''
    Approximates a match for a target from a sequence of targets,
    if a match exists.
    '''
    source, targets = targets, map(str.lower, targets)
    target = target.lower()

    matches = get_close_matches(target, targets, n=1, cutoff=0.25)

    if matches:
        match = matches[0]
        return source[targets.index(match)]
    else:
        return None

target = 'Z'
targets = ['Joe', 'Bob', 'zombie', 'Susan', 'kobold', 'Bill']
match = get_target_match(target, targets)
print "Going nom on %s" % match # IT'S A ZOMBIE!!!
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