On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershme...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the > standard library? > > So this is the kind of thing that would lead to arguments about "what game?" The general concept works for me, though if something can be agreed upon. > My very first lines of code were modifications to a QBasic game called > "nibbles" which came with QBasic. A memory dear to my heart and CV. The > world has changed and nowadays it's much easier to download whatever, > though I think this would still be useful for our younger downloaders: > > * As a reason to poke and tinker around c:\python33\Lib\ or > /usr/lib/python3.3/ > * To give a simple, sample Tk app. > That does screw over OS X users since their version of Tk by default is crap unless you also provide a non-GUI version. -Brett C. > * "import turtle" is nice but at 4K lines, we can do simpler. Also, as a > game it's mainly interesting for a very young demographic I believe. > * A simple, fun, readable, moddable, Tk game is possible at 200-400 lines > or about 10KB of uncompressed code. > * As another neat "Python is fun" example, à la "import antigravity" > > > Yuval Greenfield > > _______________________________________________ > stdlib-sig mailing list > stdlib-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig > >
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