Python Feedback on snake game.

[skifli]

Hey,

For fun I challenged myself to make a snake game in Python entirely in the console without any external libraries (apart from `colorama` and `pynput`). I was wondering if anyone might have any feedback on the game's code, specifically in ways to simplify the code. The code isn't that well documented (working on it), and so if there are any ambiguous parts I would be happy to explain them.

Code: GitHub - skifli/snek: It's snake. But snek. And in Python.

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[Antero360]

Hey,

For fun I challenged myself to make a snake game in Python entirely in the console without any external libraries (apart from `colorama` and `pynput`). I was wondering if anyone might have any feedback on the game's code, specifically in ways to simplify the code. The code isn't that well documented (working on it), and so if there are any ambiguous parts I would be happy to explain them.

Code: GitHub - skifli/snek: It's snake. But snek. And in Python.

Example Image:

NIIIIICE!
Any challenges you faced?

 

[Malcolm]

Wow amazing work! 😀

 

[skifli]

NIIIIICE!
Any challenges you faced?

One was working out how to make the world size automatically fit into the terminal's width and height. The height wasn't that hard, but the width was harder because for every vertex in the world there are two characters printed (e.g. `██` not just `█` because one is rectangular but two make a square). I didn't realise this at first when calculating the world width, but eventually I figured it out.

 

[Deleted member 2829]

I downloaded snek.py and gave it a go, but it does not look so good for me - almost impossible to see the action :



I'm probably missing something ?

 

[skifli]

I downloaded snek.py and gave it a go, but it does not look so good for me - almost impossible to see the action :

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I'm probably missing something ?

Do you have support for Unicode fonts enabled in Windows settings? It looks like the characters used to display the entities aren't rendering properly.

 

[Deleted member 2829]

Do you have support for Unicode fonts enabled in Windows settings? It looks like the characters used to display the entities aren't rendering properly.

Thanks. Unicode was the key indeed, but not in the way you suspected. My mistake was that I had copied and pasted the file contents into my Text Editor, then saved as UTF-8. That should have been Unicode of course, but it would not have helped, the damage was already done after the paste. So I used good old Notepad and voila it works 😀 I otherwise stay well clear of Notepad but one thing you can say about it is that it's fully Unicode enabled by default.
EDIT - Perhaps it would be wise to not hardcode the Unicode chars in your code, but use something like \u1234 (not sure of the syntax in Python).

 

[skifli]

Thanks. Unicode was the key indeed, but not in the way you suspected. My mistake was that I had copied and pasted the file contents into my Text Editor, then saved as UTF-8. That should have been Unicode of course, but it would not have helped, the damage was already done after the paste. So I used good old Notepad and voila it works 😀 I otherwise stay well clear of Notepad but one thing you can say about it is that it's fully Unicode enabled by default.
EDIT - Perhaps it would be wise to not hardcode the Unicode chars in your code, but use something like \u1234 (not sure of the syntax in Python).

Thanks for the advice, I have added a note to the README about Unicode support and now the chars aren't hardcoded in the code.

 

[Deleted member 2829]

Thanks for the advice, I have added a note to the README about Unicode support and now the chars aren't hardcoded in the code.

Just so that stupid sods like me don't screw up by pasting the code 🤣

 

[skifli]

Just so that stupid sods like me don't screw up by pasting the code 🤣

Lol it's ok, sometimes even the best of us make mistakes.

 

[skifli]

Just finished rewriting the whole program; hopefully the code is easier to understand now. I always find it easier to rewrite a program a second time before expanding the first version as I find I'm able to write much better code the second time.