pyChing is a program written in the Python object-oriented programming language, using the Tkinter oop interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. pyChing allows you to 'consult' the I Ching.

The I Ching is an ancient Chinese book of wisdom, which, apart from being read as a book, has also traditionally been consulted as an oracle. pyChing allows you to perform an I Ching 'reading' using the coin oracle, and then look up a brief interpretation from the I Ching. Some further introductory material on the I Ching itself is also available from within the program.

pyChing is copyrighted, freely available software published under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which can be viewed here.

Python and Tk are available for many different platforms, including Linux/Unix/X11, MacOs/OSX and Windows, and pyChing should be able to run on most of the platforms that Python and Tk support. However, development, and most of the testing of pyChing, have taken place on Linux, with a little testing on windows, so your milage on other platforms may vary. See the note on the download page about bug reports.

Notes on system requirements are available on the download page.

You can find out a little more about pyChing and some of its features by viewing pyChing's readme  file. Some screen  shots of pyChing in action, are also available. Visit the download page to get pyChing.

• 27th Feb 2006
  Version 1.2.2 released. Minor bugfix, addressed deprecated module warning.
  You can view the summary  of  changes.
  
  
• 28th May 2003
  Version 1.2.1 released. New hexagram information browser and may other improvements and fixes.
• 16th September 2000
  Version 1.0.4 released. Replaced .pyw file missing from .zip archive.
  Only affects the win32 platform.
  You can view the
  
• 15th September 2000
  Version 1.0.3 released. Bug fixes, rewrites and code tidy-ups.
• 6th March 2000
  Version 0.9.65 released. New formatted hypertext help and information viewer.
  Chinese characters now shown with hexagram information.
  Line drawing fixes for windows platforms.
  Many small documentation changes and code tidyups.
  
• 22nd February 2000
  Version 0.9.10 released. Complete rewrite of help and data files, based on new sources.
  Minor changes to help and data display routines.
  Updated screenshots.
• 14th February 2000
  Version 0.9.3 released. New website and contact information in all relevant files.
  Source, data and build changes to allow one set of release files for all supported platforms.
• 15th September 1999
  Version 0.9.2 released. Bugfixes and some documentation, data and code cleanups.
  
• 1st September 1999
  First public release of pyching, version 0.9.1

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