John, have you taken a look at pyglet? It's an alternative to pygame and I found it pretty slick once I got the hang of it. There is a development version that's compatible with python 3 and I've never had a bug with it. It wraps OpenGL itself so there are no additional dependencies.
// joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:49:40 -0700 > Subject: Homework help requested, thanks to everyone. > From: john_lada...@sbcglobal.net > To: python-list@python.org > > Thanks to everyone for their wealth of suggestions. I already had my > students playing with turtle. And I had asked them to alphabetize a string > (without having previously revealed the sorted() function). > > So far, I have taken up the suggestion of the number-guessing game. One of > my students has a working version. The logic is a bit clumsy, but it's a > fine first attempt. > > I will also take up the Twenty Questions idea. My son and I played that game > a lot over the years, to pass the time on long car rides. And it would be a > great way to introduce the binary tree data structure. > > Another project I thought of was a Pig Latin translator. (But do kids today > even know what Pig Latin is? Am I showing my age?) > > Concerning more advanced, real-time, game-oriented graphics, I am trying to > figure out how to build PyGame on top of Python3.x. Supposedly it is > possible. I just haven't figured out how. It's 2013: I refuse to complicate > my students' programming education with Python 2.x. > > I used wxPython happily for years, and I think that its graphical > capabilities would probably be up to the task of a simple 2D game. > Unfortunately, it has the same problem as PyGame, at least for now. The > Py3-compatible version of wxPython, to be known as Phoenix, is still under > development. > > I'll keep Unity, Panda3D, and Blender in mind for later. Again, one of my > main concerns will be Python 3.x compatibility. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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