Adventure Game/adventure_game/Handler.py

@@ -22,10 +22,22 @@ class Handler(npyscreen.ButtonPress):
         except IndexError:
             self.parent.parentApp.log.warn('Command "{0}" could not be split, was it malformed or incomplete?'.format(raw_command))
             command = ''
-        arguments = parsed_command # Whatever is left in the list, are arguments.
+        arguments = parsed_command  # Whatever is left in the list, are arguments.
 
+        # Handle an empty command
+        if len(command) <= 2:
+            self.parent.update_log('Command was too short, try something like "MOVE", "PICK UP" or "USE".')
+
+        else:
+            # Concatenate everything back together (just to show the user the program understood them correctly
+            self.parent.update_log(command + ' ' + ' '.join(str(s) for s in arguments))
+
+        # Log the command that we parsed
         self.parent.parentApp.log.info('Parsed command "{0}" with arguments "{1}"'.format(command, arguments))
-        self.parent.update_log('command: ' + command)
+
-        self.parent.update_log('args: {0}'.format(arguments))
+        # Make sure to re-draw the art box when we're all done (in case we updated it in logic above)
         self.parent.artContent.display()
+
+        # Switch back to the game menu.
+        #TODO: possibly deprecate this statement?
         self.parent.parentApp.switchForm('GAME')