pytron-book/src/pytron-web.md

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About Pytron-web

Pytron-web is a website where you can upload your AI and see it compete with other AIs from other people.

On the index of the site, you can see the leaderboard, as well as the results of all battles.

Note that this website is hosted on an N7 server, so you won't be able to access it if you're not on the N7 local network (you can still use it through the VPN).

Battle system

All the possible battles are done: each AI will have to battle each other AI. For each pair of AIs, 100 battles will be launched, on a predetermined, symmetric set of initial positions.

The size of the map for this is 10x10, so you need to make sure that your AI will work with those sizes.

How to upload your AI

There are two ways to upload your AI:

On the website

You will have to enter the name of your AI and upload a ZIP archive of your AI. This archive must contain a file named ai.py which must contain a class Ai which must have a constructor that takes no arguments. It may also contain some other files, that will be placed next to the ai.py file on the server.

With the upload script

In the pytron repository, there is a script named upload which will allow you to upload your AI.

It assumes that your AIs are stored in the ais directory, at the root of the repository. Each AI must be in its own directory, and must contain a file named ai.py which must contain a class Ai which must have a constructor that takes no arguments.

This script is interactive, you can launch it by typing

./upload

and it will look for AIs. If it doesn't find any AI, it will print an error message, and if it finds many, it will ask you which one you want to upload. It will then process to create the archive and upload it to the server itself.