Z-machine/Infocom interpreter in Python?

[David Fillmore]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Anyone know of a Python library for interpreting Infocom Z-machine
> games, up to at least z5 (or whichever the version is _before_ the one
> that had support for graphics and sound, I have no need for that)?
> 
> I'm looking for something that can be hooked into chat systems so that
> people can send it messages (as commands) and get back the results.  I
> can't recall whether the status line in Z needs to be treated specially
> or not.
> 
> Some Web searches came up with PUB,
> 
> 	http://py-universe.sourceforge.net/
> 
> which is an authoring system and not an interpreter, and viola,
> 
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/viola/
> 
> which as far as I can tell is a dead project which never made any
> releases [grumbles about the use of the present tense to describe
> projects which are not yet created].

Viola isn't dead, it's just undergoing serious rewriting due to the
fact that the code is basically a mess. It should be ready for a
proper release before too long. Hopefully.

--
Fillmore