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[Alfonso Crawford]

I've been thinking of using python itself as a loading-script, instead of having Python load from data-files. My problem is that I don't know how to delete modules that hold sprite-data, when I don't need the data.

Any suggestions?

[Triplefox]

Check out eval() and execfile().

[george]

My problem is that I don't know how to delete modules that hold sprite-data, when I don't need the data.

Though I'm curious why you need to delete the modules at all, what about importing a list and then just removing() from the list?

[Alfonso Crawford]

This is basically what a loader-module will look like:

Code:

from Animation import Frame


animframe1 = Frame(1, 2, 3)
animframe1.next = "jump6"

animframe2 = Frame(4, 5, 6)
animframe2.next = "frame1"

But, if the animation-data is no longer at all necessary, how do I get rid of it?

[george]

sorry, I'm a little confused...by animation-data do you mean the frame image, like 'jump6' is the 6th frame of the jump animation? Do you have a case where the animation must proceed without that frame included in the animation?

[Alfonso Crawford]

Oh! My apologies. The animation-data I'm referring to is just the procedural data, such as frame-duration and a few physical properties. A separate graphics-system will handle image-loading, when I get that far.