hirethissnake / 2017

A Python AI for competition in the BattleSnake 2017 competition. We're gonna crush those other snakey fools!

Sneaky Snake

A aggressive / defensive Battlesnake implementation. Written by Phil Denhoff, Daniel Frankcom, Eric Showers, Kyle Thorpe, and Alex Welsh-Piedrahita.

Current feature list is in the .docx file.

Running / Installing

Install the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for Python 2.7 from aka.ms/vcpython27.

The required Python packages are listed in requirements.txt. They can be batch installed, as an administrator (use sudo), with

pip install -r requirements.txt

and python-igraph can be installed by following instructions at python-igraph install. For Windows, use Christoph Gohlke's unofficial installers (pick *-cp27), and

python -m pip install /path/to/igraph.whl

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Dependencies should be visually confirmed to be installed with

pip list

battlesnake-python

A simple BattleSnake AI written in Python.

Visit battlesnake.io/readme for API documentation and instructions for running your AI.

This AI client uses the bottle web framework to serve requests and the gunicorn web server for running bottle on Heroku. Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt.

You will need...

• a working Python 2.7 development environment (getting started guide)
• experience deploying Python apps to Heroku
• pip to install Python dependencies

Running the Snake Locally

1. Fork this repo.

2. Clone repo to your development environment:

git clone [e-mail]:username/battlesnake-python.git

3. Install dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run local server:

python app/main.py

5. Test client in your browser: http://localhost:8080.

Deploying to Heroku

1. Create a new Heroku app:

heroku create [APP_NAME]

2. Deploy code to Heroku servers:

git push heroku master

3. Open Heroku app in browser:

heroku open

or visit http://APP_NAME.herokuapp.com.

4. View server logs with the heroku logs command:

heroku logs --tail

Questions?

Email [e-mail].