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8.7: Setting Up the Piece Templates

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    TEMPLATEWIDTH = 5
TEMPLATEHEIGHT = 5

S_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '..OO.',
                     '.OO..',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '..OO.',
                     '...O.',
                     '.....']]

Z_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '.OO..',
                     '..OO.',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '.OO..',
                     '.O...',
                     '.....']]

I_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '.....',
                     'OOOO.',
                     '.....',
                     '.....']]

O_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '.OO..',
                     '.OO..',
                     '.....']]

J_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '.O...',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '.....',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..OO.',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '...O.',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '.OO..',
                     '.....']]

L_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '...O.',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '.....',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '..OO.',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '.O...',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '.OO..',
                     '..O..',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....']]

T_SHAPE_TEMPLATE = [['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '.....',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '..OO.',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '.....',
                     '.OOO.',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....'],
                    ['.....',
                     '..O..',
                     '.OO..',
                     '..O..',
                     '.....']]

    Our game program needs to know how each of the shapes are shaped, including for all of their possible rotations. In order to do this, we will create lists of lists of strings. The inner list of strings will represent a single rotation of a shape, like this:

    ['.....',
 '.....',
 '..OO.',
 '.OO..',
 '.....']

    We will write the rest of our code so that it interprets a list of strings like the one above to represent a shape where the periods are empty spaces and the O’s are boxes, like this:

    Figure 32

    This page titled 8.7: Setting Up the Piece Templates is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Al Sweigart via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.