Tic Tac Toe Python The Classic TicTacToe Game in Python

So, the best and the most fun way to learn any programming language for me has always been by developing a fun project like a simple game or some project that I would use in my daily life.

So, when I started to learn Python, I started with this No Starch Press published book “Automate The Boring Stuff With Python” which is just awesome and If you are looking for a book to get started learning python, I would recommend you to go through this book. Its very beginner-friendly and it covers almost all the basic topics of python. So, while solving the exercises in this book, I came across this TicTacToe game implementation in python.

	#Implementation of Two Player Tic-Tac-Toe game in Python.
	''' We will make the board using dictionary
	in which keys will be the location(i.e : top-left,mid-right,etc.)
	and initialliy it's values will be empty space and then after every move
	we will change the value according to player's choice of move. '''
	theBoard = {'7': ' ' , '8': ' ' , '9': ' ' ,
	'4': ' ' , '5': ' ' , '6': ' ' ,
	'1': ' ' , '2': ' ' , '3': ' ' }
	board_keys = []
	for key in theBoard:
	board_keys.append(key)
	''' We will have to print the updated board after every move in the game and
	thus we will make a function in which we'll define the printBoard function
	so that we can easily print the board everytime by calling this function. '''
	def printBoard(board):
	print(board['7'] + '|' + board['8'] + '|' + board['9'])
	print('-+-+-')
	print(board['4'] + '|' + board['5'] + '|' + board['6'])
	print('-+-+-')
	print(board['1'] + '|' + board['2'] + '|' + board['3'])
	# Now we'll write the main function which has all the gameplay functionality.
	def game():
	turn = 'X'
	count = 0
	for i in range(10):
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("It's your turn," + turn + ".Move to which place?")
	move = input()
	if theBoard[move] == ' ':
	theBoard[move] = turn
	count += 1
	else:
	print("That place is already filled.\nMove to which place?")
	continue
	# Now we will check if player X or O has won,for every move after 5 moves.
	if count >= 5:
	if theBoard['7'] == theBoard['8'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ': # across the top
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['4'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['6'] != ' ': # across the middle
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['2'] == theBoard['3'] != ' ': # across the bottom
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['4'] == theBoard['7'] != ' ': # down the left side
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['2'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['8'] != ' ': # down the middle
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['3'] == theBoard['6'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ': # down the right side
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['7'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['3'] != ' ': # diagonal
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ': # diagonal
	printBoard(theBoard)
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print(" **** " +turn + " won. ****")
	break
	# If neither X nor O wins and the board is full, we'll declare the result as 'tie'.
	if count == 9:
	print("\nGame Over.\n")
	print("It's a Tie!!")
	# Now we have to change the player after every move.
	if turn =='X':
	turn = 'O'
	else:
	turn = 'X'
	# Now we will ask if player wants to restart the game or not.
	restart = input("Do want to play Again?(y/n)")
	if restart == "y" or restart == "Y":
	for key in board_keys:
	theBoard[key] = " "
	game()
	if __name__ == "__main__":
	game()

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Comments

[Vicente G. Reyes]

Could you please add more context to this post?

[James Shah]

Sure. Can you elaborate particularly what should i add/change?

[Vicente G. Reyes]

Sure. As a community mod, I find this purely promotional.

You can add at least 1 or 2 snippets of code with an explanation of what they do.

Cheers

[James Shah]

Okay. Changed it. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jarvis Silva]

Great python program here are some more python game programs for you with code.

[anik2000s]

if count == 9:
print("\nGame Over.\n")

print("It's a Tie!!")

I think after this line a break is missing.