First attempt at a Python prog (Chess)
Tim Roberts
timr at probo.com
Thu Feb 14 01:05:13 EST 2013
Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>New to Python, which I really like BTW.
>
>First serious prog. Hope you like it. I know it needs a 'can't move if
>your King would be put into check' test. But the weighted value of the
>King piece does a surprising emergent job.
It looks a little like a C program ported line-by-line to Python. For
example, in Python, there's no reason not to keep the board as an 8x8 array
instead of a 64-element list. That by itself would make the code easier to
read. It would also let you replace this:
for row in range(8):
for col in range(8):
with the more Pythonic:
for row in board:
for cell in row:
I would probably replace the piece_type function with a map that maps the
piece number directly to the piece
--
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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