[stdlib-sig] A game in the standard library

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Yuval Greenfield wrote:
> What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the standard
> library?

Great idea !

> 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.
> * "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, à la "import antigravity"

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