Interfacing my chess client with GNU chess using python

[Varun Hiremath]

Hello,
I have written a chess client using python which is a graphic
interface to play chess. It is at present a two player version,
players move their peices by clicking two squares on the board as
in any other chess clients.
Now i want to interface my program with the already available
gnuchess program. Basically i want to feed the user input to the
gnuchess and get the output and then display in my GUI. I have read
about Popen but i couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there any
other better ways of doing it. Any help would be appreciated.



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Varun Hiremath
Undergraduate Student,
Aerospace Engg. Department,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai, India

 

[Will McGugan]

Hello,
I have written a chess client using python which is a graphic
interface to play chess. It is at present a two player version,
players move their peices by clicking two squares on the board as
in any other chess clients.
Now i want to interface my program with the already available
gnuchess program. Basically i want to feed the user input to the
gnuchess and get the output and then display in my GUI. I have read
about Popen but i couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there any
other better ways of doing it. Any help would be appreciated.

The subprocess module may help you...

http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-subprocess.html


Will McGugan