Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

On 29/03/16 22:17, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 2016 22:20, "Alan Gauld" > wrote: > > > investigate. And of course there is OpenGL which plays very > > well with MacOSX. > > OpenGL plays nicely with Windows and Linux as well. > But not so well as MacOS X

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

On 29 Mar 2016 22:20, "Alan Gauld" wrote: > > PyGin and Albow are other games based frameworks you could > investigate. And of course there is OpenGL which plays very > well with MacOSX. OpenGL plays nicely with Windows and Linux as well. I think that pygame actually uses pyglet which is an OpenG

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

Wonderful! Thanks Alan and Oscar. I will proceed with the various suggestions and hopefully will be successful. Thanks again so very much for all your support and help! Lisa On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 29/03/16 19:03, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > > > I have a few stu

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

On 29/03/16 19:03, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in > Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for something > more robust. I'm not sure what you mean by robust. Tkinter is fine for low speed/non-graphics i

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

On 29 Mar 2016 21:19, "Bob Gailer" wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2016 2:03 PM, "Lisa Hasler Waters" wrote: > > > > I continually get this error: > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/Users/lwaters/Desktop/pygameTest.py", line 1, in > > import pygame, sys > > File > > > "/Libr

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

Thanks Bob. Using Mac, OS 10.11 El Cap Yes running Python 2.7 Installed the Pygame from: http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml 1.9.1 I could try to uninstall/re -- but I'll wait to see if anyone has other suggestions based on the new info I've provided. Thx On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob G

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

On Mar 29, 2016 2:03 PM, "Lisa Hasler Waters" wrote: > > I continually get this error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/lwaters/Desktop/pygameTest.py", line 1, in > import pygame, sys > File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-pac

[Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

Hello All, I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for something more robust. I tried using pygame but cannot seem to get it initialized. I continually get this error: Traceback (most recent call last

[Tutor] Fwd: How python keeps track of data types

-- Forwarded message -- From: Abhishek Kumar Date: 2016-03-29 7:15 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: [Tutor] How python keeps track of data types To: Tutor@python.org Thanks everyone for answers and links.I wasn't aware of fact that python names are just references to Objects. Abhishek O

Re: [Tutor] How python keeps track of data types

Thanks everyone for answers and links.I wasn't aware of fact that python names are just references to Objects. Abhishek On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > Hello > I am a computer science student,I want to know how python keeps track of > data types of variables and is the

Re: [Tutor] How python keeps track of data types

Hi Abhishek, On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > Hello > I am a computer science student,I want to know how python keeps track of > data types of variables and is there a way to get data types of variables > without actually running the script(with type() function). I think