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    <p>Here you go. This is a pretty clean method to do it. Shortly, I'll post my version of your class. :-) (well, I was going to, but this is already pretty prolix..)</p> <pre><code>class hero(): def __init__(self, name="Jimmy", prof="Warrior", weapon="Sword"): """Constructor for hero""" self.name = name self.prof = prof self.weapon = weapon self.herodict = { "Name": self.name, "Class": self.prof, "Weapon": self.weapon } self.herotext = { "Welcome": "Greetings, hero. What is thine name? ", "AskClass": "A fine name {Name}. What is thine class? ", "AskWeapon": "A {Class}? What shalt thy weapon be? ", } def setHeroDict(self, textkey, herokey): n = raw_input(self.herotext[textkey].format(**self.herodict)) self.herodict[herokey] = n print self.herodict[herokey] h = hero("Tommy", "Mage", "Staff") h.setHeroDict("Welcome", "Name") h.setHeroDict("AskClass", "Class") </code></pre> <p>Explanation:</p> <p>'format' is just a newer thing that does about what % does. The line above could have used the % method too. These two are equivalent:</p> <pre><code>"Hello, {foo}".format(**{'foo': 'bar'}) "Hello, %(foo)s!" % {'foo': 'bar'} </code></pre> <p>Either way, the idea is to avoid overwriting your template string. At the time you were creating your string templates, you were using them, then assigning the value to a variable. </p> <p>Just as 5 * 10 always gets replaced with 50, 'meow%s' % 'meow!' is always replaced with "meow meow!". The five, ten, and both meows are automatically garbage collected, unless there's a reference to them elsewhere.</p> <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print 5 * 10 50 &gt;&gt;&gt; # the five, ten, and the 50 are now gone. &gt;&gt;&gt; template = "meow {}" &gt;&gt;&gt; template.format('splat!') 'meow splat!' &gt;&gt;&gt; # 'splat!' and 'meow splat!' are both gone, but your template still exists. &gt;&gt;&gt; template 'meow {}' &gt;&gt;&gt; template = template % 'hiss!' # this evaluates to "template = 'meow hiss!'" &gt;&gt;&gt; template # our template is now gone, replaced with 'meow hiss!' 'meow hiss!' </code></pre> <p>..so, store your template in a variable, and and don't 'save over' them with the strings you create using them, unless you're done with the template and it makes sense to do so.</p>
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    1. COSo this basically, in essence, reinitialized the dict entry and retrieves the most uptodate version? This looks very nice. Is this usually how people go about dict changes/retrial? By the way thank you for the effort in this answer. If I could upvote you more I would. ps, {foo} method instead of % is blow'n my mind. So much easier.
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    2. CO..reinitialize probably isn't the right term, but yes. It's not the only way to go about retrieval of items from dicts, but some of that is different use cases, some of it is personal preference. I'll edit this to add my version of your class.
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    3. CO..well, I got interrupted, so, nix that. Anyways, format takes keyword arguments, so the most basic version of that is `"{a}, {b}".format(a='1', bar='2')`. I can also make a dict, and use the `**some_dict` expansion magic to use that dict as the keyword arguments: `"{a}, {b}".format(**{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3})`. Format ignores extra keyword arguments, so it's ok to include 'c' in there. Not all functions/methods ignore extras. Also, using a really big dict expands *all* of the options, so bear in mind a dict with 1000 keys expands to 1000 keyword arguments, which is pretty inefficient.
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