Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python

14 Practice Projects

So far, this book has taught you techniques for writing readable, Pythonic code. Let’s put these techniques into practice by looking at the source code for two command line games: the Tower of Hanoi and Four-in-a-Row.

These projects are short and text-based to keep their scope small, but they demonstrate the principles this book outlines so far. I formatted the code using the Black tool described in “Black: The Uncompromising Code Formatter” on page 53. I chose the variable names according to the guidelines in Chapter 4. I wrote the code in a Pythonic style, as described in Chapter 6. In addition, I wrote comments and ...