Python for Fun¶
by Chris Meyers
Purpose of this Collection¶
This collection is a presentation of several small Python programs. They are aimed at intermediate programmers; people who have studied Python and are fairly comfortable with basic recursion and object oriented techniques. Each program is very short, never more than a couple of pages and accompanied with a write-up.
I have found Python to be an excellent language to express algorithms clearly. Some of the ideas here originated in other programs in other languages. But in most cases I developed code from scratch from just an outline of an idea. However “Lisp in Python” was almost a translation exercise from John McCarthy’s original “Evalquote in Lisp”.
From many years of programming these are some of my favorite programs. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I look forward to hearing from readers, especially folks with suggestions for improvements, ideas for new projects, or people who are doing similar things. You can email me at mailme.html
Many thanks to Paul Carduner and Jeff Elkner for their work on this page, especially for Paul’s graphic of “Psyltherin” (apologies to Harry Potter) and to the Sphinx developement team for their documentation generator to which all the other web pages in this collection have been recently adapted.
