Question

I’m working on a text adventure that stores the levels as a massive dictionary called ‘places’. Instead of having it in the main file, I thought that I would make a separate file called ‘levels.py’ that would contain it, making my code cleaner and eliminating the need to go through 450+ lines of other code to add to it.

So, the main game file:

from levels import places

class Thing:
    #Some stuff

levels.py:

from game import *
places = {
    "bleh" : Thing("bleh"),
}

It seems like ‘places’ isn’t defined in the game, however.

I think that what’s happening is that there’s an import ‘loop’. However, if levels.py needs to import classes from game.py, how could I prevent something like that?

Answer 1

It’s always possible to refactor to eliminate circular dependencies. Move Thing to thing.py, then in game.py and in levels.py use from thing import Thing. Rinse and repeat.