I found the original pytxtelite (written by Ian Sparks) at http://automaticromantic.com/static/misc/pytxtelite.txt. You can find a copy of the original script in the "pytxtelite" folder.

pytxtelite is a conversion of Ian Bell's txtelite.c 1.2 (and parts of 1.4) to Python (2.5, maybe earlier).

As I was interested in planet names only, I removed everything else. This script contains the minimum for generating planet names.

It also has a simple command-line interface for printing planet names (n) and for jumping to the next galaxy (j).

I made a simple wrapper script too called elite.py. If you want to get the name of a random planet, use elite.py.

Print the planet names in Galaxy 1:

import pyplanets

galaxy = pyplanets.Galaxy()
print(galaxy.planets)

Print the name of a random planet:

import random
...
print(random.choice(galaxy.planets))

• Laszlo Szathmary ([email protected])
• Homepage: http://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/elite-planet-name-generator/

This part was added by Richard Hannah ([email protected]).

python elitePlanetApi.py

Then navigate to http://localhost:5000/planet.

• Ian Bell's Text Elite Page (http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/index.htm): A C implementation of the classic Elite trading system.
• richcarl/txtelite: An Erlang version of Ian Bell's "text Elite". Also contains an updated version of the original C code.