Minor Suggestions

[zavs]

First, my highest respect to the author. The author has been updating the version very frequently, and Pymud is indeed a relatively comprehensive client. I discovered and started using it through PKUXKX, a classic Chinese MUD game (short for "Peking University Xia Ke Xing" / "Peking University Knight-errant", its online vibe’s just as lit as ShangrilaMux—y’all know what I’m sayin’!). --If you’re down to learn Chinese or already get the gist of it, come hang out in this community—we’d love to have you!
However, the vitality of an open-source client should not be limited to a single audience. It may require more people to participate in its maintenance and enhance the activity of community-based upkeep. It is hoped that users around the world will contribute to the maintenance of this open-source repo, which may require the author to open up contribution channels. Additionally, it is also expected that more people will raise issues (report problems or propose suggestions).
A potential insight into the issue could be the isolation of the user audience. MUD itself is a very niche game genre. The total number of users of pkuxkx or ShangrilaMux mentioned earlier is around 100,000, with relatively few active users. Also, we have to address a practical problem: GitHub is ultimately outside China's Great Firewall (GFW). Making it accessible to users worldwide is a relatively more effective means of maintenance. Therefore, when maintaining this source code repository, we should take into account the language used in the README document as much as possible for readability purposes.

In addition, here are several specific bugs in detail. Currently, in version 0.21.8, there are several issues with the generated examples.py.
1）There is a mismatch between the use and definition of the dictionary. The "value.worst" in line 166, however, only has "value" in the styles dictionary.
2）The "food" in line 165 seems to be a string (str), while 100 is an integer (int), resulting in a comparison between a string and an integer.
3）The variable "maximum" in lines 112 and 114 may be 0, so it is recommended to add protection against division by zero.
Such minor issues can degrade the user experience for less professional users, and community maintenance is needed to help the author address them as soon as possible.

[crapex]

Thanks for your suggestion. The examples.py is only an example for how to use pymud to write script, so i didn't pay much attention to whether there are actual runtime errors. In the next version, I will fix these issues.
Additionally, how excactly should I open up the contribution channels? I'm not familiar with GitHub, and I only see "add pepole" button in the collaborators page in project settings. I might need help understanding GitHub's collaboration workflow properly.

[zavs]

Nice!!! The new version has arrived.
Regarding the question about contributions, it primarily involves planning, collaboration, and standardizing specific requirements. The approach I understand is that contributors should follow the process of forking, creating a new branch, pushing changes, and submitting a pull request (which will generate a merge request).

After using it for the past couple of days, PyMud has a strong appeal. After all, it is currently the relatively most well-established Python client. I am also trying to use this client for other MUD games. Of course, I know this client has vitality in pkuxkx and should leverage pkuxkx's promotional effect.

Experienced Python users might find that the initial steps can be skipped. The key lies in the difference between the specificity and generality of the script files corresponding to the client.
It may be possible to strip away the parts related to the client's internal variables, allowing session attributes to form relatively universal scripts. Then, based on the session attributes of different MUD games, specific auxiliary scripts tailored to specialized information could be written. This approach should allow adaptation to other games.

Additionally, is it possible to utilize the screen to create specific areas for displaying special content, such as QQ messages?

[crapex]

1. The project has opened the contribution channel, and you can now normally create issues and submit pull requests (PRs).
2. PYMUD is designed from the beginning to be a general-purpose MUD client, so the core program does not contain any content specifically bound to PKUXKX. The only connection to PKUXKX is that, since I only play this game, the provided example scripts are based on PKUXKX. When using PYMUD to connect to other types of MUD games, you just need to modify the local pymud.cfg file and replace the default scripts accordingly.
3. Regarding splitting the window to display other messages, if you are using a Linux-like system, you can use tmux to split windows manually. Currently, a web client plugin based on WebSocket is provided, which allows displaying additional content.

websocket.2.0.4.zip