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Python is an interpreted, general-purpose high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Use the python tag for all Python related questions. If you believe your question may be even more specific, you can include a version specific tag such as python-3.x.

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Turtle language parser in python 3

I a creating a program to parse a simple language in a text file and delegate those actions to python-turtle. …
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Write a program that asks the user to input 10 integers, and then prints the largest odd num...

Your code is good, but could use a few improvements: The while loop You could just do this with a for loop: for i in range(10): ... Your way of finding the largest (odd) number This is impracti …
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Finding the number of "block chains" that are a certain length and begin with a certain string

I'm currently practicing for the british informatics olympiad by doing past papers. I was doing question 3 of the 2019 paper: A set of children’s blocks, each illustrated with a single different lett …
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Drawing a tilemap using python and pygame

I am creating a tile-map in python using pygame. The code I have (see below) works OK, but I was wandering if there were any improvements. …
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chess game: loading images for the rooks

First of all; rook_image, rook_image_2, black_rook, black_rook_image_2, rook_image_2, etc. can be improved, although they are somewhat descriptive. Something like this might be better: SCALE = ... OFF …
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Checking if a chessboard presented as a dictionary, is a valid chessboard

You might want to name your functions in snake case, as it is the convention for python. (is_valid_chess_board not isValidChessBoard.) …
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Text based naval game

Your code is good, but there are a few improvements to be made. First, the repeated code. You repeat the same code for player1 and player2, when you could just use a method: # inside the Ship class d …
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Roman numerals look and say sequence

I wrote this python code to attempt to solve this: ROMAN_NUMERALS = { 1000: "M", 900: "CM", 500: "D", 400: "DC", 100: "C", 90: "XC", 50: "L", 40: "XL", 10: "X", …
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Simple encryption/decryption program using python (and tkinter)

I am creating a simple program with a GUI to encrypt/decrypt text using different ciphers. I tried to make it so that it would be easy to add new ciphers. This is my code: import tkinter as tk ALPHA …
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Pong using pygame module

I made a game in Python where you play Pong against an AI. As I am quite new to pygame, I would be grateful to hear any possible improvements. …
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Python tic-tac-toe using tkinter

Note that the actual tic-tac-toe logic is being done by the python-tictactoe library. …
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Separating a String of Text into Separate Words in Python

While your program is functional and solid, there are plenty of improvements to be made. How I would solve it. A better way to solve this would probably be: import re test_string = "she sat down bes …
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simple Rock, paper, scissors game

This code is good, but it has a few problems. Review The options Instead of handling rock, scissors and paper as strings, I'd use an enum: from enum import Enum class Options(Enum): ROCK = 0 …
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