Writing a small battleship game server in Python

[Brian Quinlan]

Michael Goettsche wrote:
> What would be a good, but still easy way to write such a server? 

You could use SimpleXMLRPCServer. A client call sequence could like this:

 >>> s = xmlrpclib.Server('http://...')
 >>> token = s.join_game() # blocks until another player joins
 >>> s.send_board(
...  ['...pppa...',
...   '......a...',
...   '.d....a...',
...   '.d....a.ss',
...   '.d....a...'])
 >>> s.get_other_board(token) # blocks until other player sends board
['...........',
  '...........',
  '...........',
  '...........',
  '...........']
 >>> s.fire(2,2)
'Hit!'
 >>> s.get_other_board(token)
['...........',
  '.H.........',
  '...........',
  '...........',
  '...........']
 >>> s.get_my_board(token) # blocks until other guy shoots
['...pppa...',
  '......a...',
  '.d....a...',
  '.d....A.ss', # uppercase if hit
  '.d....a...'])

Just designed in 2 minutes - but you get the idea.

Cheers,
Brian