idea: Robocode for Python

[C. Porter Bassett]

> Wouldn't jython fill the bill in this case?  

I had the same thought, and decided to try it.  Since I don't have any
java nor jython experience, I didn't get very far.  I'll post my
progress here in the hopes that somebody can help me get a litte
further.

First of all, here's a very simple .java robot:

  package porter;
  import robocode.*;

  public class CPB extends Robot
  {
    public void run()


      while(true)


        ahead(100);
        turnGunRight(360);
        back(100);
        turnGunRight(360);
      }
    }

    public void onScannedRobot(ScannedRobotEvent e)
    {
      fire(1);
    }
  }

I have no idea what the package porter; line is for, so I ignored it. 
I
added the robocode.jar to my classpath, and tried to translate this
java
code to python.  Here's my python file:

  from robocode import *
  class pyrobot(Robot):
     def run(self):
        while(1):
           ahead(100)
           turnGunRight(360)
           back(100)
           turnGunRight(360)
     def onScannedRobot(self, event):
        fire(1)

I ran that through jythonc, and it compiled, but I got a depracation
warning.  I recompiled with -deprecation, and here's the output from
jythonc:

  0932:PWORK://d/robocode/robots/porter$ jythonc pyrobot.py
  processing pyrobot

  Required packages:
    robocode.dialog
    robocode.jdk13bugfix
    robocode.editor
    robocode*

  Creating adapters:

  Creating .java files:
    pyrobot module
      pyrobot extends robocode.Robot

  Compiling .java to .class...
  Compiling with args: ['c://jdk1.3.1_01/bin/javac.exe',
'-deprecation',
'-classpath', 'C:\\jython-2.0\\jython.jar;.;C:\\Program
Files\\proe2000i2\\modchk\\java\\xml\\xml4j.jar;c:\\jython-2.0\\jython.jar;d
:\\robocode\\robocode.jar;.\\jpywork;;C:\\jython-2.0\\Tools\\jythonc;d:\\rob
ocode\\robots\\porter\\.;C:\\jython-2.0\\Lib;c:\\jython\\lib;C:\\jython-2.0'
, '.\\jpywork\\pyrobot.java']
  0  .\jpywork\pyrobot.java:100: warning:
jfindattr(org.python.core.PyProxy,java.lang.String) in
org.python.core.Py
has been deprecated
          PyObject inst = Py.jfindattr(this, "onScannedRobot");
                            ^
  .\jpywork\pyrobot.java:110: warning:
jfindattr(org.python.core.PyProxy,java.lang.String) in
org.python.core.Py
has been deprecated
          PyObject inst = Py.jfindattr(this, "run");
                            ^
  2 warnings

When I try to run a robocode battle with this robot, the robocode
console
gives me the following error:


  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: porter/jpywork/pyrobot (wrong name:
pyrobot)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
          at
robocode.JBotsClassLoader.loadRobotClass(JBotsClassLoader.java:55)
          at robocode.Battle.initialize(Battle.java:350)
          at robocode.Battle.run(Battle.java:42)
          at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Because of my utter lack of java knowledge, I am completely stuck.  Is
it
even possible to do what I am trying to do?  If so, what should I try
next?