Mark Summerfield wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:11:40 -0400 > "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:33:58 -0700, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: >>> In article >>> <CAP1=2W6eSDbP9W6EZWP7=puyy8pa8dg+ma1syj35lewqoz_...@mail.gmail.com>, >>> Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >>>> Wrong tense as the Demos directory got nuked in Python 3.2. >>> >>> Rather than being totally nuked in 3.2, didn't the old Demos directory >>> just get pruned and cleaned up and then moved to underneath the Tools >>> directory as Tools/demo? >> >> Yes. >> >> Not only that, but there are already some tkinter demos, though they >> are not games. > > I have Perl/Tk versions of snake and tetris that're ~1500 LOC. If I > dropped the handling of options and made them all constants (board size, > timing interval, board colors, etc.) that would take them down to ~950 > LOC. > > I would be happy to port one of them to Python/Tkinter and I'm pretty > sure I could reduce the size even further without compromising on > readability. > > I also have a Python/Tkinter version of tilefall (samegame) that's ~1200 > LOC, but again, if I made all the options constants & did some other > simplifications to the GUI I could easily get that down to ~800 LOC or > less. > > Or maybe the person who suggested adding a game to Tools/demo already > has their own game in mind:-)
Please note that we cannot add games to Python for which the owners of the IP claim copyrights, patents or trademarks. Tetris is one such game. Tic-tac-toe would be a good example of a popular game (even if simplistic) that does not have such problems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe). It's also simple enough to demonstrate writing such games in Python. Snake would work as well, since the company owning the IP closed down in 1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28game%29). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 18 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-08-25: FrOSCon, St. Augustin, Germany ... 7 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
