python_solar-system

An object-oriented model of a (fantasy) solar system - a Python re-imagining of the original java_solar-system project, preserving its domain principles while expressing them idiomatically in Python.

Domain principles (carried over from the Java version)

Layout

python_solar-system/
├── solar_system/
│   ├── __init__.py        # package exports (Planet, SolarSystem)
│   ├── planet.py          # Planet domain object
│   ├── solar_system.py    # SolarSystem aggregate (sequence protocol)
│   ├── cli.py             # interactive driver + table formatting
│   └── __main__.py        # `python -m solar_system`
├── tests/                 # pytest suite
├── pyproject.toml
└── README.md

Running

From inside python_solar-system/:

# Run the interactive fantasy builder
python -m solar_system

# Or, after `pip install -e .`
fantasy-solar-system

Example session:

Enter the name of the solar system:Andromeda
Now enter planet names - type 'done' to finish
Enter name: Krypton
Planet Krypton has a mass of 12.34 Earths, is 5.6AU from its star, and orbits in 13.25 years
Enter name: done

Name       Mass                 Distance             Period (years)
Krypton    12.34                5.6                  13.25

Programmatic use

from solar_system import Planet, SolarSystem

system = SolarSystem("Sol")
system.add_planet("Earth", mass=1.0, distance=1.0)
system.add_planet(Planet("Mars", 0.107, 1.524))

for planet in system:               # SolarSystem is iterable
    print(planet.name, planet.orbital_period)

print(system)                        # full multi-line summary

Tests

pip install -e ".[test]"
pytest

Origin

This codebase began as an artifact of a conversation about Self-Realization as the key to avoiding failure — recorded with a YouTube creator whose work reaches roughly 14k monthly views. Porting the 2017 Java original to a clean, test-backed Python design was the practical companion to that conversation: a small, deliberate act of building something true to its own first principles.

Credit

Domain and behaviour derived from the original Java project, © 2017 Richard A. Famoroti.