sgf

Python implementation of Smart Game Format

After 14 years, I've extracted my old SGF code from PyGo and am in the process of cleaning it up and making it available under an MIT license.

To Install

pip install sgf==0.5

Parse

import sgf
with open("examples/ff4_ex.sgf") as f:
    collection = sgf.parse(f.read())

collection now represents the SGF collection.

Output

with open("output.sgf", "w") as f:
    collection.output(f)

The Objects

• Collection has
  • children[] each of which is a GameTree
• GameTree has
  • nodes[] each of which is a Node (nodes up to first variation)
  • children[] each of which is a GameTree (game tree for each variation)
  • game.root the first node of the game tree (technically this is only
    called the "root" for game trees immediately under a collection)
  • game.rest an iterable over the rest of the nodes in the mainline
• Node has
  • properties[] dictionary with string keys and values
  • previous - previous node in SGF
  • next - next node in SGF
  • previous_variation - previous variation (if first node in a variation)
  • next_variation - next variation (if first node in a variation)
  • first - boolean indicating when first node in a variation
  • variations[] - list of variations immediately from this node

Collection is indexable and iterable. collection[0] will return the first game in a collection and for game in collection will iterate over the games. len(collection) will return the number of games it contains.

GameTree is iterable over the mainline nodes (i.e. following the first of any variations). e.g. for node in game.