This week I think I would like to take a break from python to get back into writing a few new posts on vuejs. I have all ready wrote a number of posts on the basics of vuejs a while back, so now i think I should focus more on creating some actual simple vuejs examples with the vue framework and native javaScript. With that said I think it might be a good idea to make a few simple idle games with the framework, it just seems like something that might prove to be fun, and in the process I can also apply what I know so far when it comes to using vuejs as a client side framework.

Idle games seem to have a pretty addictive nature to them when they are well done, also making a basic one for starters is not so hard. There are many features that come to mind that I think just about any idle game should have, but for this one I am going to keep things very basic. In idle games there is often a way to get a kind of resource by way of a manual action such as clicking a button of some kind. There are also a wide range of other features that I think any idle game should have including resource gains over time, resource gains gained over time while away, upgrades, and so forth. However for now maybe I should focus on just what the core of the game is for starters.

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There should be a built in way to create random numbers in python, and there is at least one way by making use of the random standard library. There are some projects where I might want to plug in a random number for an expression, or as an argument to a function. The random standard library has not just one, but a few methods to help make quick work with most typical use case examples for random numbers.

In this post I will be going over a few quick examples of the basic methods to get up and running quickly with random numbers in python. There will be just a few quick basic examples of the random method that will return a value between 0 and 1, and a few other range methods that help save me a little time when making my own solutions.

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In javaScript there is a built in Date class, so I would think that there should be something to that effect in python also. Well there is a few built in standard libraries actually it would seem and one such library is the datetime library. This library is a little different from the built in Date class that I am used to with javaScript, for one thing there is not just one class, but a few classes actually. There is a datetime class that seems to be similar the the Date class, but there is also a date class, and a timedelta class also.

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When working with source code and text in general there are times where i will want to know if a substring is in a string or not. Other times I will want to know a bit more then just if there is a substring, but one or more substrings. Also I might want to know even more about the state of a substring such as the starting and ending index values for each match. Also there might be times now and then where I am not looking for a fixed, static substring, but a pattern that might have some degree of variation, but follows a kind of reason.

There are a number of options when it comes to looking for a substring in a string. If I just want to know if there is a given fixed substring in a string or not there are some simple basic options to do that and just move on. However when it comes to doing something more advanced for situations in which doing so is called for, such as creating a lanaguge tokenizer, then I might need to get into using regular expressions.

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When learning a new language that can be used to create scripts that can be called from the command line one of the first things that I like to learn is how to access any positional arguments that might have been given when the script was called. If I do just want to check positional arguments then there is just using the sys libraries argv property to do so. However there should be a way to parse named arguments with a built in library or there should at least be a decent user space options when it comes to parsing named options.

WHen it comes to option parsers in some programing languages I have to look for a user space option, or even go so far as to create and maintain my own options parser. This is, or at least as of this writing was the case when it comes to nodejs, as such I would go with a user space npm package for option parsing such as commander, or yargs. However one nice thing about writing scripts with python is that there is a great built in option parser called argparse.

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