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Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Nice work! IMHO, Snake is one of the best games to get your feet wet programming. I have very fond memories of writing a snake game on the TI-83. IIRC, my event loop was so slow that I didn't even need any wait states to make the game playable.

Excellent! Just as a tip, when writing curses it's best to run everything in a curses wrapper, so wrap your main function in curses.wrapper(main) basically. If you don't do so, crashing messes up the terminal.

Not working for me in OSX 10.10. Here is a PasteBin of the error I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/CicWMAc2

Try to use with maximised window - it's a bug that happens when trying to draw on a window that's too small

That worked perfectly for me, thanks!

Regarding this, does anyone have tips on how best to do curses layouts that support different window sizes? I'm working on a procedurally generated console game in my free time, using Python + curses, and this is an issue I run into as well.

I've been considering taking some time to try to write some sort of "fluid" or "dynamic" layout framework for curses (i.e. specify percents for width / height, and have it automatically expand). Seems like a giant pain though...

Since this is a snake game, and it's python, you really should switch to snake_case rather than camelCase :)

Doesn't work on windows -

    ImportError: No module name fcntl

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