[Tutor] Re: Possible Useless Python Challenge.

[Rob Andrews]

I finally added the KISS viewer idea to the Useless Python Challenge
page, with a link to the Tutor archive of the first suggestion of it.
Andrew Wilkins has also sent in the first Challenge solution in the form
of a chat application featuring a GUI and modest encryption.

Rob

Tesla Coil wrote:
> 
> Wondering about this as a possible Useless Python
> Challenge.  I'd feel a little guilty suggesting it,
> as I'm uncertain how difficult a task it is, but
> really, Gilbert Roulot is moreso to blame. ;)
> 
> Roulot is the author of the Foks Linux KiSS viewer.
> On the homepage, http://perso.wanadoo.fr/issarlk/Foks/
> Roulot lists among "Features and technical stuff" that
> Foks is "written in the GNU Sather language. The best
> language there is to write KiSS viewers (IMNSHO)!"
> 
> It doesn't appear this has ever been demonstrated
> incorrect by a better KiSS viewer being written
> in Python--for that matter, any KiSS viewer being
> written in Python.
> 
> A KiSS viewer could prove a somewhat larger app than
> would be considered "Useless Python," but it probably
> qualifies in that one would be writing it perhaps more
> to have it done in Python than need for the utility of
> Yet Another program with which to play paperdolls...
> 
> KiSS data sets are bundled using LZH compression,
> if there's a module for that, I haven't located it.
> I suppose that a cel file decoder could be cooked up
> using Python Imaging Library, but I've no experience
> in that department at all.  Other than that, I guess
> one is up against reading .cnf files generated by a
> variety of editors and sometimes written by hand.
> 
> More introduction & file specs can be found at
> http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~yav/kiss/indexe.html

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