My attempts to implement simple algorithms in Python with as few statements as possible.

See Wikipedia for the rules. To try it:

python life.py

To stop it press Ctrl+C. To change the size of the board, modify the value of the boardSize variable. To change the initial board configuration, assign your initial configuration to board as a list of rows which are each a list of booleans (e.g. board = [[False, False, False],[True, True, True],[False, False, False]])