esper VS python-tcod-ec

That's cool, I didn't realize you had implemented an ECS library for tcod. At first glance it seems a bit more featureful than esper. The tags and relations functionality seem particularly useful for queries. l'll consider using it for the tutorial.

If you don't mind the broken type hinting then you could go with Esper.

I've been closely looking at the Python ECS libraries Snecs and Esper. I was hoping I could use one of them to fix the Python tutorial without making the tutorial about writing an entity-component engine. What I actually want would be a Python ECS library with NumPy for static types, but a library I did find for that didn't have a good enough license for a tutorial. For now I'll be okay with dynamic types just so I can fix my current problems, and I'll think about performance some other time.

I've been attempting to do this using an entity-component-system (specifically the Esper system). The difference being that I'm trying to explain my processors in separate documents first.

Not much to see/to do yet. I just wanted to try Esper and LDtk.

I've also added a new class called Composite to tcod-ec which allows for multiple components per class and looking up components by a base class. While this is more flexible than ComponentDict I feel that the extra complexity detracts from its usefulness greatly and the new container quickly leads into anti-patterns in my attempts to use it. I struggle to make examples for Composite which couldn't be better expressed in other ways. So far it feels like the restrictions of ComponentDict are a feature rather than a flaw.

For my own project I've been skipping the entity repository and systems and implementing only entity/component frameworks for practice and since I might not need systems most of the time (although there are big downsides for entities and components not being in a repository). My own project can be found here.

I don't have ECS yet, I've tried the current Python libraries but didn't like their typing support, so right now I'm experimenting with basic EC frameworks. I have a decent example right now, and it should be clear how this is better than the Python tutorials implementation.