Question

Create a user-defined function named

'loadMaze' that accepts 3 parameters:
1. the maze string returned from the 'createMaze' function (above),
2. the # of rows the maze contains, and
3. the # of columns the maze contains.
This function uses the maze string to create a 2-dimensional
list containing every character in the maze. The first
character stored at (0,0) and the last at (rows-1, cols-1).
This function returns the 2-dimensional list.

Answer 1

def loadMaze(mazeString, rows, cols):

maze = []

for i in range(rows):

row = []

for j in range(cols):

index = i*cols + j

row.append(mazeString[index])

maze.append(row)

return maze

Explanation: This function takes in three parameters: mazeString, the string returned from the createMaze function, rows, the number of rows in the maze, and cols, the number of columns in the maze.

The function first creates an empty list maze. It then loops through each row of the maze and creates a new list row. For each row, it loops through each column and calculates the index of the corresponding character in the mazeString based on the row and column numbers. It then appends the character at that index to the row. Finally, it appends the completed row to the maze.

Once all rows and columns have been processed, the completed maze 2-dimensional list is returned. The first character in the maze is stored at index (0,0) and the last character is stored at index (rows-1,cols-1).