Newbie question - data structure for game

[Ken Albright]

I'm just learning Python and Django so please be gentle...

I've written a quote decryption game (like you see in the newspaper) in Python. I'd like to put it on a web page with Django. However, I'm not sure of the best way to structure the data. The original quote and the encrypted quote need to have a one-to-one relationship at the letter level. So it could be two strings on the same row (same id) or a set of tuples, a dictionary, or ???

How to set up the database and models.py?

Thanks

[Bob Gailer]

On Oct 28, 2016 7:59 PM, "Ken Albright" <cfk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm just learning Python and Django so please be gentle...
>
> I've written a quote decryption game (like you see in the newspaper) in Python. I'd like to put it on a web page with Django. However, I'm not sure of the best way to structure the data. The original quote and the encrypted quote need to have a one-to-one relationship at the letter level. So it could be two strings on the same row (same id)

That is the simplest, and I see no need for anything more complex.

or a set of tuples, a dictionary, or ???
>
> How to set up the database

What do you mean?

and models.py?

class Quote:
    plain= Models.CharField()
    crypt = Models.CharField()

> Thanks
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[Yaşar Arabacı]

I am also quite new to django, but I will go with something like this;

class Quote(models.Model):

    quote= models.CharField(max_length=100)

class EncryptedQuote(models.Model)

    quote = models.ForeignKey(Quote, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    encrypted_quote = models.CharField(max_length=100)

So, you can have multiple encryptions of any quote.

[Ken Albright]

Sounds good. Thanks for the advice. Now if I could only figure out how to get forms to expand and contract to match the size of the quote...

Thanks.

[Stephanie&stephan Statsmann]

K

[Derek]

You'll probably need jQuery. Bear in mind "size" is not absolute as it will depend on font family and font height.