Thankyou very much for your help! :) It's really appreciated. The first tip has saved me quite a few lines of code and definitely makes the program more robust.

I have changed the way the grid is...

Hi there,
thought i'd pop in and say hi :)
I'm an amateur computer ... player/fiddler .. i suppose.. :D
I like to tinker around with new languages: python and java being the main 2 that i've...

I thought I'd set myself a challenge as I've been programming in Python a little while now (nothing too heavy, mind you!) and make a 4-in-a-row game which I could play against the computer or another...