[Edu-sig] Python for AI

[Guido van Rossum]

> I feel that Python can be used for teaching regular AI topics. I would
> like to attempt teaching without using traditional LISP/Prolog.
> Nothing against them, but only to develop material for a Python based
> course.  I would like to know if any of you already know material that
> would help me in shaping this course or develop examples.  Any help
> will be appreciated.

Mark Lutz wrote an expert system shell in Python named "Holmes".  I
don't recall where it was published; maybe he used it as an example in
Programming Python (1st ed.).  Try a Googe search for "expert system
Python".

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)