Conway's Game of Life in Python

Implementation of Conway's Game of Life in an infinite space in Python. Alive cells are stored in a set. To calculate the next iteration, we compute the number of neighbors for each cell that has neighbors.

Peter Norvig has a fantastic explanation in a Jupyter Notebook.

My goal was to write a pythonic program that is easy to understand (limit the use of comprehensions).

I am implementing the Game of Life in different programming languages to learn about them. You can find all of my implementations on GitHub.

What I liked/disliked about python

• Python syntax is easy to read and write.
• Named tuples, iterators, defaultdict, and list comprehensions are awesome.
• Writing tests is really easy.

Run an example

python game_of_life.py

Running the tests

Run python test.py.

More

Check out this sonification of the output of this program: https://github.com/Mystified131/GameOfMusic.