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                     I'm making a renpy game with code like this:
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                     How does one create a patch to change "teacher" to "gardener"?
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                        I have a ren'py game with code like this:
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                     If you're playing the game and you'd like to make this change within the context of your current play, the best way is to open up the developer console and just execute
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                     That will change the variable in your current game (and the changed value will go into your next save.)
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                     (or change False to True if a line like that already exists.)
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                     If you're trying to permanently modify the game so that it will always use "gardener" instead of "teacher", you can't (easily) swap out just one line of code.  You'd either have to create a new version of the file that's in that will overwrite the existing file.  It's also possible to replace a section of code that (a) starts with a label that's always "jumped to" and (b) ends with a jump to a label by creating a new file with a new label at the beginning and the replaced content, and then use "config.label_overrides" (
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                     RPYC files are not generally encrypted.  They are compiled versions of the original RPY files.  There are a number of different tools available that will "decompile" the RPYC files into equivalent RPY files.  One such is
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                     Note - if I make the (probably invalid) assumption that you're just trying to change "teacher" to "gardener", there is one patch technique that is pretty straightforward.  Create an rpy file in the game directory containing:
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                     Ah, ok.  That's a different matter.  You showed code
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                     Here's what I'd do.  In your "unpatched" code somewhere, have:
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                     The point is that the "init 10" code in your patch will run after the "init" code in your unpatched game, and so it will update personTitleType to the new value.  All of that runs before your script ("init" phase comes before "script" phase).  Thus, when the patch file is in place, when your
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                     runs, personTitleType will have a different value then when the patch file is not in place.
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                     This is sorta kinda but not really related to the OP question, but it's a tool I use to 'rescue' old saves when a developer adds a new variable check to a game, which ends up 'breaking' old saves.
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                     Of course, you still need to decide what an initial value should be if say you end up skipping the part of the game where the variable value is assigned using an old save.  One trick I've used is to add a 'question' to the start of a subsequent day, should a player end up skipping something.  i.e.
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                     This way, players don't have to replay the entire game, or even the entire previous day, when you've added a new variable...
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                     Sorry, but you got a "nasty message" because you do nasty things ; you don't need to rely on exceptions here. The none nasty way is :
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                     Which will works great since Ren'py import the whole default store as global for every Python block or singleton line. But like every variable is in fact an attribute of the
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                        Sorry, but you got a "nasty message" because you do nasty things ; you don't need to rely on exceptions here. The none nasty way is :
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                        Which will works great since Ren'py import the whole default store as global for every Python block or singleton line. But like every variable is in fact an attribute of the
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                     Except that I'm NOT getting a nasty message when I use the code to 'cover' for added variables that aren't defined in previous saves.  Try it and get back with me, you'll see that it works.  I've used this in two separate published mods now, without issue.
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                     Sure, the best thing is to code all your variables up front so that you don't get the 'undefined' error when playing in the first place, but developers add variables to new versions all the time, and then expect people to replay the entire game, rather than 'covering' for their lack of foresight.
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                     My way DOES work, you are just citing other ways to do the same thing.
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                     I'm not going to debate you on which way is better, I'm just pointing out what has worked well for me.  The entire point here is to help help developers find ways to resolve such issues, as this has been an ongoing problem.
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                     It's not because you intercepted it with the
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                     You can turn it in all the way you want, the exception is raised, so the nasty message exist.
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                     I didn't said that it wasn't working, just that you don't need to rely on an exception when there's a built-in function wrote especially to do what you want to do.
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                     Exception exist to cover exceptional/unexpected situation. By example I had to add one in my variable viewer because someone found funny to mess with Ren'py translation. It was a problem because Ren'py tell me that there's a translation, but in the same time yell at me if I try to access it. So, intercepted the exception raised to not annoy users and let them still enjoy the tool.
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                     But here it's neither exceptional nor unexpected. In the contrary, you expect your code to fail for anyone using an old save. So exception aren't the way to do, even if they works ; and they works.
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                     Reason why I wrote the how-to I linked above. I have the knowledge, they have the problem... and after reading it, they share this part of my knowledge and don't have the problem anymore.
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                     Let me phrase it otherwise:  If you wear a 50cm layer of foam all around you, you don't care if a car hit you when you cross a road. Yet, it doesn't mean that it's not easier and better to just look both side before crossing the said road.
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                     And so ? Between your answer and mine, they now have three different ways to resolve this issue... You should be happy, not angry.
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                     Apparently I really didn't expressed my thoughts clearly enough. Despite the, probably unavoidable, paradigm bias between "
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                     ", it wasn't at all what I (tried and apparently failed to) talk about.
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                     What I reproach to the exception use made by
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                     is not the paradigm behind it, but the fact that it's a closed and hard coded approach ; you need to address the variable literally. This mean that even if the structure stay the same, you have to repeat it for every single variable you'll add.
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                     You've one decade more of experience than me, so you surely know how, while writing code, repeating yourself can quickly become boring and discouraging. Without talking about the mess that a bunch of copy/paste can become. And, alas, that's where lead the exception use.
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                     There's authors who base their whole game on flags and so add tens of variables with each updates. They will perhaps try it one time, but most of them will never try it again. Between the forgot variables and the one tested while the assignation in the
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                     At the opposite you've two other ways to do the same things, but ways that don't need you to literally address the variables. Instead of saying, "I want to try this variable", you're saying, "I want to try the variable named like this". This indirect approach mean that you can simplify your code, reusing the same test/assignation couple inside a loop.
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                     I didn't wrote it at first and linked to it instead, but it lead to something like this :
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                     The author will still need to build the list, but it will be less discouraging than repeating the same piece of code over and over. It also have less possibility of error than a bunch of copy/paste.
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                     And starting with this, if really they'll have to add a bunch of new variables with each updates, they'll probably figure by themselves how to insert the loop in another one ; using a list of variables list. What will offer them support to any old save, whatever how many updates occurred since the player played for the last time.
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                     That's why I tried to say, and nothing else. You (generic) code your game like you want. I said it more that once, whatever can say "good practices" and paradigms, the only good practice is to write your code like you feel it. It's only this way that you'll enjoy doing it, remember more easily why you wrote things like this, and so write a reliable code.
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                     So now the debate has just shifted to "what should be the settings for the automatic indentor in the IDE.
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                        Another reason why I won't ever get into python: this tab discrimination in 2018 is not acceptable! =P
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                     At least this was a decision I understood, as it removed any of the problems of ambiguity as to "how many spaces equal a tab" if you had a file with mixed "tab indenting" and "space indenting," which would definitely have happened.
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                        So now the debate has just shifted to "what should be the settings for the automatic indentor in the IDE.
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                     For this stuff I usually run Notepad++ and I could set it to use whitespaces instead of tabs, but I don't know if I can for specific file extensions only. I surely don't want that in general.
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                     Besides I hate wasting resources, why using 3+ spaces (actual number according to preference) to do the job of a single \t character? Why should I press left or right arrow 3+ time when I could press it only once per indentation level?
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                     Not sure that there's a language where they are as much light-weighted than in Python. I mean, Python internally use an exception to tell itself that it have reached the end of an iteration, or to warn "hasattr" and "getattr" that there's no attribute with the given name. And in Python, both iterations and these two built-in functions are massively used...
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