Popular recipes by Peter M http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4190729/2014-09-05T15:02:11-07:00ActiveState Code RecipesGame of Life - Python 3.4 & tkinter (Python)
2014-09-05T15:02:11-07:00Peter Mhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4190729/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578928-game-of-life-python-34-tkinter/
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recipe 578928
by <a href="/recipes/users/4190729/">Peter M</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/python3/">python3</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/tkinter/">tkinter</a>).
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<p>I took this well-know game to design my own solution, and make a GUI for it.</p>
<p>To run the program, you will need to create a txt file with rows of dots, so like this:</p>
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<p>and name it empty_board.gol
(I have tested this program withwith 55x55)</p>
<p>It is functional and not object oriented.</p>
<p>My game of life algorithm is probably not the best one around (suggestions welcome), but I think this program is a nice demo of with tkinter can do and how easy it is to program GUI's with tkinter.</p>
<p>It has been written and tested in python 3.4 but I guess any version 3 should work, and probably only minor changes are needed to make it work in 2.6 or 2.7 (e.g. change tkinter to Tkinter).</p>