Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

I recently took on the task of cleaning up my CT Book 4 & 5 character
generation code I wrote to teach myself python.

Partially because it needed it.  It had a number of defects still
floating around from a 'clean up' that I hadn't fixed yet.

Also because I wanted to try using a LLM for the project.  I have
friends who are still full time programmers tell me they have to do that
at work now.

That was kind of a mixed bag, parts of it went smoothly, other parts,
not so much. It was really bad a root cause analysis, especially for
defects it created.

I had to remember my time in purgatory (full time sustaining software
engineer), to fix those.

One of the updates I did was to also dump stats to a csv file for
analysis.  Useful for finding defects and looking at trends.

A typical 1000 book 5 character generation produced a fair number of
E9s, but officers maxed at at O3, with a very rare O4.

I still have some more cleanup to do and expansion on the book 4 csv
output.  Did it mostly on my MacBook, with occasional runs on my Window
10 box just to make sure it ran.  Should move the code to my Ubuntu
system and try it there.

Mark

On 8/1/2026 10:05 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton - chris at vindaloo.com
(via tml list) wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 10:50:01PM -0400, Chris Hilton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I program in Python mainly on Mac and some form of Unix. I'm trying to get some code that I
>> wrote working under python in Windows and I feel like I'm on Mars. My program is in two
>> pieces:
>>
>> [ ...snip... ]
> There was a problem in the package holding the `py_trav_ship` module's setup.py. Once I
> fixed it, it worked great under Windows. Later today I'll see if I can make it work with
> py2exe.
>
> -- Chris
>