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Study Drill 1: Zed Shaw just wanted me to check my work.

Study Drill 2: I think that he uses single-quotes for big group strings and double-quotes for individual strings. I think that he does this so that there is more individuality between strings.

SD #1: I think that the if statement is saying that IF said variable or other thing is true that it is to do whatever the code underneath it says. But, if the variable or other thing is false than to just ignore the bottom text.

SD #2: It needs to be indented to show that the bottom code is part of the if statement. If it's not indented, then you will either get an error or the code will run like normal just ignoring the if statement.

SD #3: If it's not indented, then you will either get an error or the code will run like normal just ignoring the if statement.

SD #4: Yes, you can but then the printed text would make absolutely no sense :P

SD #5: Then, you get the same results just with differently named variables. But if you just change the names of the first three lines, then you'll get an error saying that cats, dogs, and people aren't defined.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3786881/what-is-a-method-in-python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11696472/seek-function

• Read through https://github.com/IanTheDrummer/conway/blob/master/bin/conway.py
• Add a comment to each statement describing what it does. Short comments can go on the same line. Put long comments on the line before the statement.

SD #1: I think that else is saying that if the if statement isn't true than to try and see if the else statement is. The elif however is a combination of an else statement and the if statement. It's giving an if statement as an else statement.

Right now, pip is in C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe. It would be nice if you could just type pip without the full path to use it. Same for things installed by pip.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/pydoc.html

I think that you have to put the "" because python would just end up thinking that the 6 and 2 are separate.

Study Drill 1 had me review my work and fix anything that needed to be fixed!

http://lfw.org/python/

I think that you had to pass a 'w' so that you could open the file in 'write' mode.

• Play Adventure. See if you can finish it by New Year's. 😁 We'll read through the code next year.

Equality Operators:

 < "Less Than"
 <= "Less Than Or Equal"
 > "Greater Than"
 >= "Greater Than Or Equal"
 == "Equal"
 != "Not Equal"
 is "Object identity"
 is not "Negated Object Identity"

Hint: I combined study drills 1 and 2 to make one big response since the two went together!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5563089/raw-input-function-in-python

If you didn't have the return 'room', then python would just assume to return none or exit. So, instead of returning none and not having a solid flowing game, we return the next room which tells python to simply go ahead to the next room.

No, you do not need to truncate the file. It's redundant since, as you noticed, opening in write mode will overwrite the file.