Color objects can be created using standard web color names (and a few more) from Genie dictionaries embedded in libsoy's source code. If you know the name of a color you want you can use it like this:

There is currently no way to get a list of supported colors nor add new colors a game developer may want to use repeatedly. This problem can be solved by exposing the internal dict used to store these colors to Python.

Write a new PySoy class soy._GeeMap which implements the Python Mapping Protocol such that it acts similar to a Python Dict. Keys for this should always be strings, Python value type should be passable with a constructor argument and must be a subclass of soy._G (ie, a PySoy Type).

There are examples of this already including soy.scenes.Scene, though this will be more generic for re-use. Mentor will provide a good deal of guidance on this. A good deal of this new class can and should be copied from existing working code.

Once done, add a Color.names read-only property which returns an instance of soy._GeeMap wrapping the color name dict. This dict should then be usable to add, remove, and modify colors in it.

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As you complete each piece of this task (the code compiles), commit your work and post the resulting changeset url to this task. Remember to hg pull -u often and before every commit to minimize change conflicts.