Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Using external Python packages
Lecture: 03-adding-a-little-more-ui-to-rps
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Our game is okay, but boy could it use some color
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or some UI or something, right?
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It all just blends together.
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It would be much, much nicer if we could quickly indicate
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who's playing what, whether or not you've won, and so on.
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So what we can do, is we can use an external library
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that will make it very easy for us to output color
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instead of regular lain text.
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You can do it without these libraries,
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but it's complicated,
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it's different across different operating systems.
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With these cool external libraries, you just basically say
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print, but make it blue, or print, but make it yellow,
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and then out it comes.
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So this is actually going to be a big improvement to our app,
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and we're going to get a library called Colorama
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that let's us do this.
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But, we could go a little farther.
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We could come in here and we could say,
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in addition to color, it's one thing to have that great
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long list of one, two, three, four, five,
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but what about a little dropdown in our terminal here?
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That'd be really cool, right?
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And it can autocomplete, so if we typed S,
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it'll pull up scissors and sponge in our final example.
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Even if we typed, I don't know, R,
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it would pull up rock, and scissors,
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and I guess paper, as well.
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But, you know, if you type enough that it's going to narrow
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it down, then it'll pull those up.
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Like if you hit C, it would be rock and scissors.
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So, we're going to be able to add that little UI
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using a different library and combine these two,
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and you'll see that it's easy to do.
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We basically say their name, we ask Python
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to go get them for us, and then we can just start working
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with these extra libraries.
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It's going to be really fun.
