Edited Game of Life in Python

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Just a little background, I knew little about "The Game of Life" before working on this. I'm sure not sure I understand it, but that's beyond the point.

I tried to implement it using canvas as requested per the issue. However while my code looks fine to me, the GUI is not responding for whatever reason. I added a start and stop feature for convenience.

When the program is ran from the command line, the GUI loads up as expected with no issue. When I press start however, the program crashes and I have to exit my terminal prompt to bring things back to normal.

If you could please take a look and provide some feedback, I'd sincerely appreciate it. I'm stuck and I am not sure what to do next.

[jrg94]

Awesome! I'm excited to see you've tackled #110. I'll take a look, but I'm really not well versed in tk at all. I find the library a little clunky.

[jrg94]

When I opened everything up in PyCharm, there appeared to be a couple sections of unreachable code. Also, I noticed a few variables where their reference couldn't be found, but that may just be a typing issue.

[2Clutch]

Just went and fixed the begin_id issue. I had called it begin_id that in the beginning, but renamed it game_id and forgot to update it there. I use Sublime Text as an editor. I will look around for a PythonLinter plugin of sort and trying to work things through.

[jrg94]

Sounds good! I'll keep playing a bit. I see the grid shows up, and I noticed your debugs are pretty helpful.

[jrg94]

We haven't touched this for a few months, so I'm going to close this for now.

[jrg94]

And, we're back! 💃

[jrg94]

Just now getting a chance to look this over.

[jrg94]

Overall, I think this is great. I'm going to rename the file for consistency, but this runs great otherwise. I noticed it goes to the console instead of as a full GUI, and I think that's fine.

[jrg94]

Thanks for moving this file! I didn't realize until now that it was sitting in root.