Create Board Game-like Grid in Python

Question

I am thinking of creating a board game in Python, one which will have a grid of spaces, each with different properties, and which may or may not have pieces resting on them.

Answer 1

You can consider your underlying board implementation as different kind of datastructures.

1. List of lists - l1 = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]
2. Dict with values as list = d1 = {a:[1,2,3],b:[4,5,6],c:[7,8,9]}
3. Dict with keys are coordinates and values which you can assign.
4. As a Graph

Here is a design of an empty chessboard.

>>> chessboard = {}
>>> for row in range(8):
...     for col in range(8):
...             chessboard[(row,col)] = 0
... 
>>>

You can use any of these and design the logic of your game. For higher level elements you can tie these objects or elements within to spites of pygame