Artifical Life - a job for someone else

[Erik Max Francis]

Michael Foord wrote:

> I really miss a decent Cellular Automota program and I was really
> surprised that there weren't lot's of implementations for python.
> 
> I've seen 'cage' around, but this uses curses so doesn't work on
> windoze :-(

I know that Kevin Altis at one point was experimenting with hooking up
CAGE to PythonCard; I don't know how far he got or whether it eventually
got released (as a PythonCard sample).  Martijn Faassen was kind enough
to let me know about a CAGE integration he did for pygame, which
apparently is working and he sent me sample code (and I'm sure he'd be
happy to send it to you).

But even if neither of those things interest you, there _is_ a Python
curses module that works with Windows:

	http://flangy.com/dev/python/curses/

I haven't looked at it recently, but when it was initially announced I
checked CAGE out in it and found to my pleasant surprise that it worked
flawlessly and I didn't see any problems (the Web page even mentions my
report).  As I said I haven't examined it recently, but I'm sure it's
only improved in the meantime.

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