pypgn 0.5.1

Library for parsing and manipulating PGN format files.

PyPGN

A pure Python 3 library to simplify parsing and manipulation of PGN (Portable Game Notation) format files, which are often used for serializing games such as chess.

Prerequisites

Python version 3.x >= 3.6 and PiP

Install

Install or upgrade with PiP

$ pip install pypgn 

You can also install from source:

git clone https://github.com/DaniruKun/pypgn.git
cd pypgn
python setup.py install

Examples

from pypgn.game import Game
# Importing game from file on disk
chess_game = Game('test.pgn')

# Import game from Lichess
chess_game.pgn('dGm3ND39')

print(chess_game.tag('Event'))
print(chess_game.result())
# Print opening ply for white
print(chess_game.ply(1, 'w'))

Output:

$ Rated Blitz game
$ 0-1
$ e4

Read the docs

Introduction

Contributing

Local setup

Setup a virtual environment with virtualenv

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Install requirements

$ make install

Run unit tests locally with pytest

$ make test

Run flake8 lint with

$ make lint

Docker

You can also build and run tests in a Docker container:

$ make docker-build
$ make docker-run

Authors

@DaniruKun aka Daniils Petrovs

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0 see LICENSE for more details.