idea: Robocode for Python - (redux :)

[Richard Jones]

Anyone remember the python robots effort we had a few years ago? We had a 
mailing list and all called "bots-list" - I have no archives, and amk's 
archive is no longer either...

I seem to recall that we all got busy with our Real Jobs at the time and 
never got back to it...

Let's see...

I think the most progress that came out of it was Greg Stein's code:
   http://www.pythonpros.com/gstein/war/

Greg also has a bunch of links for bot-stuff. It's probably really old (was 
updated in October, year unknown :) Haven't tested any of the links:
   http://www.pythonpros.com/gstein/bots.html

John Eikenberry produced some code too (though his website has vanished):
   ftp://ftp.coe.uga.edu/users/jae/PyBots/


Toby Sargeant and I went several steps in another direction - we believed 
that "processor-level" control was the only way to go to have a level playing 
field, and we'd actually designed the basis of a new language with all sorts 
of bot-specific stuff in it like event handling with inheritance and other 
fun :)


    Richard