In article <CAP1=2W5h9QUKvNJjrw-bez-N92rpxxCp5qNO=ol6wko90op...@mail.gmail.com>, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > 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.
> > * "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, a la "import antigravity" Not that there shouldn't be more but what about python3 -m turtledemo ? That gives easy access to the source to a number of game-like demos in a simple and elegant interface. (And it works fine on OS X with that "crap" Tk, using ActiveTcl.) http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/turtle.html#demo-scripts -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
