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Pyrdle

A failed attempt at making a Wordle clone.

I wanted it to be a TUI application and I first tried urwid. It seems to be more of a UI widget construction library than a plug-and-play framework. My extreme lack of UI programming meant the amount of time it would have taken me to figure out wasn't worth it. Better spent on other projects.

I found this lovely implementation and it's eerily similar to what I had mind for my program, particularly the look-and-feel. Good job @frostming!

The above project used a different library called textual. I tried using it but there wasn't enough documentation (at the time) for a noob like me. You needed to read library source code to see all the stuff it could do. See the point above about spending personal project time wisely.

Source Details

I write these details months after I wrote the source code so I'm probably forgetting a bunch of stuff...but! I usually comment code pretty well.

• raw_words.txt: Raw dictionary of words to make Wordle games out of
• clean_words.py: Bunch of word wrangling to get 5 letter, reasonable words to play
• words.txt: Bunch of 5 letter words, perfect to Wordle with
• colortrans.py: Stolen (but credited!) script to convert RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes
• urwid_trash: The failed attempt with urwid
  • plan.txt: Trying to visual the game board
  • README.md: More design musings. These seem to be for a simpler, text-based approach
  • main.py: Wordle game logic and real attempts at drawing TUI frontend
  • demo.py: Trying to figure out urwid without Wordle logic in the way

Everything else looks related to my textual attempts:

• textual_notes.md: Scribbles from their tutorial
• demo.py: Took an example from vendor repo and tried modifying to a Pyrdle game.