[Tutor] Has anyone done an A* algorithm in Python?

Kalle Svensson kalle@gnupung.net
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 23:43:10 +0100


[Chris McCormick]
> I am relatively new to Python, and have been using Python/SDL/pyGame
> to create a simple roleplaying application.  I want my NPC's to
> navigate around obstacles, and I have found some resources on the A*
> algorithm.  Unfortunately, the C code is pretty unintelligible to
> me.  Has anyone done something similar in a Python project?  Seeing
> some code, or even pseudocode, would be a great help.

There is some A* code in Civil (http://civil.sf.net/), I think.  Or
maybe it was on the civil-devel mailing list.  This thread might be
helpful, for example:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=367809&forum_id=6777

Peace,
  Kalle
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