[stdlib-sig] A game in the standard library

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com>wrote:

> What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the
> standard library?
>
>
So this is the kind of thing that would lead to arguments about "what
game?" The general concept works for me, though if something can be agreed
upon.


> 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.
>

That does screw over OS X users since their version of Tk by default is
crap unless you also provide a non-GUI version.

-Brett C.


> * "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"
>
>
> Yuval Greenfield
>
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