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I know it’s been a while and for that I apologize the last few months have been pretty crazy around here…although I’m starting to see a trend with life in general lately, namely that it’s always crazy.
I’ve been busy with work, Python Magazine, my wife, trips to Dallas, and yes whenever I get a chance [...]

By: Mark Mruss
Note: This article was first published the November 2007 issue of Python Magazine
While the equality operator works great on numbers and strings the fact the way it treats your custom objects really is not that useful. This article looks into overloading the equality operator so that you can easily compare your custom classes.

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Mark Mruss
Note: This article was first published the October 2007 issue of Python Magazine
XML is everywhere. It seems you can’t do much these days unless you utilize XML in one way or another. Fortunately, Python developers have a new tool in our standard arsenal: the ElementTree module. This article aims to introduce you to [...]

So I had some free time since I last posted so I hacked a little bit more into my simple game editor. I’ve a few things in there that I wanted to get in:

A grid
A paint mode to easily add sprites
An erase mode so that sprites can be removed
Fully (or so it seems) working property [...]

Hey Everyone,
Sorry I’ve been away for a bit, work and trips and writing for Python Magazine had me pretty busy and I wasn’t able to reply to everyone’s comments on the simple Python game engine. I really do appreciate the comments though so please keep them coming.
I have been thinking about the simple game engine [...]

After my last post and receiving a few helpful responses I thought I would make a post outlining some of my thoughts and ideas on what I meant and what I envision the game engine would do. Please note that these are simply some more rough ideas and brainstorming, it’s not meant to be exhaustive [...]

Is there anyone else out there that is looking for this? A simple Python (2D) game engine? I’m not talking about something like PyGame, PyGlet, or Rabbyt, all of which are very good at what they do. What I’m talking about may use these technologies (I’m thinking PyGlet and Rabbyt) but would do so [...]

I’d like to thank everyone that commented on my last post, and everyone that has emailed me ideas. They are all very much appreciated. It’s hard keeping up with everything that is happening in the Python world, and sometimes the coolest things are happening in far off places.
I got a few suggestions for Pycairo, which [...]

For this tutorial I’m going to take a look at PyGlet: “a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.” The reason that I decided to take a look at PyGlet is because it is an alternative to PyGame in the Python gaming world and: “No external dependencies or installation requirements. For most application and game [...]

The first issue of Python Magazine is finally available and they’ve made it freely available via PDF.
The magazine is quite good and I’m please to announces that I’m writing a monthly column for it entitled “Welcome to Python”. So if any of you are wondering why the posts on this blog have slowed [...]