Project 9B: More Command Practice with pyChing (Optional)

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If you just can’t get enough of this oracle stuff, or, more importantly, if you just want to get a little more practice with the command line, there is a companion program to pyWings called pyChing (see Figure 9-12). The concept is essentially the same as pyWings, but it is based on the Chinese Taoist I Ching, so it is a bit more cultural and educational. pyChing is, to be sure, equally fun and ultimately as useless as pyWings, though it is perhaps a bit cooler and more cryptic in its advice.

Figure 9-12: Predicting the future with pyChing

9B-1: Getting the pyChing Files

To get pyChing, go to the project home page at http://pyching.sourceforge.net/ download.html. Once there, scroll down to the Unix/Linux/X11 section and click the link that says pyChing’s sourceforge download page. This will take you to the download page, where you should download the latest tarball version. At the time of this writing, that would be pyching-1.2.1.tar.gz.

Installation Tips

pyChing is also a Python script, and it is created by the same person as pyWings, so the process of installing it will be exactly the same. The only difference is that you will type pyching in every place that you typed pywings earlier, and pyching-1.2.1.tar.gz instead of pywings-1.0.1.tar.gz. You also do not need to install tkinter and its dependencies again.

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