[stdlib-sig] A game in the standard library

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Yuval Greenfield <ubershmekel at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the
>> standard library?
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> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> * As a reason to poke and tinker around c:\python33\Lib\ or
>> /usr/lib/python3.3/
>> * To give a simple, sample Tk app.
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> That does screw over OS X users since their version of Tk by default is
> crap unless you also provide a non-GUI version.
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> -Brett C.
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I installed virtual box and OS X just to test this and a Tk nibbles clone I
made seems to work fine. I tested also on Windows7 and Ubuntu 12.04.

https://raw.github.com/ubershmekel/nibbles/master/nibbles.py

So I'm not sure what you mean by "screw over OS X users".

Yuval
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