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Spaces tend to cause annoyances in a Unix-style shell environment. This change fixes that.
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Original source downloaded [from Vintage Basic](http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html)
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Conversion to [Python](https://www.python.org/about/)
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##### Translator Notes:
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I tried to preserve as much of the original layout and flow of the code
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as possible. However I did use quasi enumerated types for the Fort numbers
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and Fur types. I think this was certainly a change for the better, and
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makes the code much easier to read.
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I program in many different languages on a daily basis. Most languages
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require brackets around expressions, so I just cannot bring myself to
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write an expression without brackets. IMHO it makes the code easier to study,
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but it does contravene the Python PEP-8 Style guide.
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Interestingly the code seems to have a bug around the prices of Fox Furs.
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The commodity-rate for these is stored in the variable `D1`, however some
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paths through the code do not set this price. So there was a chance of
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using this uninitialised, or whatever the previous loop set. I don't
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think this was the original authors intent. So I preserved the original flow
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of the code (using the previous `D1` value), but also catching the
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uninitialised path, and assigning a "best guess" value.
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krt@krt.com.au 2020-10-10
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