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Re: New task from Projects for the beginner:

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Sep 13th, 2006

Just finished the program. It successfully runs three times and prints the amount of matches out of 3! I printed comp_list for debugging purposes.

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import random
def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers
def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui
total_win = 0
current_win = 0
while current_win < 3:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    print comp_list
    user_list = user_random()
    user_list.sort()
    comp_list.sort()
    match = 0
    index = 0
    while index !=  6:
        if user_list[index] == comp_list[index]:
            match = match+1
            index = index+1
        else:
            index = index+1
    print match
    if match < 3:
        print "Not alike"
    else:
        print match, "numbers are alike. Well done"
        total_win=total_win+1
    current_win = current_win + 1
print "You got ",total_win," out of ",current_win," matches"
import random
def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers
def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui
total_win = 0
current_win = 0
while current_win < 3:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    print comp_list
    user_list = user_random()
    user_list.sort()
    comp_list.sort()
    match = 0
    index = 0
    while index !=  6:
        if user_list[index] == comp_list[index]:
            match = match+1
            index = index+1
        else:
            index = index+1
    print match
    if match < 3:
        print "Not alike"
    else:
        print match, "numbers are alike. Well done"
        total_win=total_win+1
    current_win = current_win + 1
print "You got ",total_win," out of ",current_win," matches"

Last edited by chris99; Sep 13th, 2006 at 5:41 am. Reason: Added text

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Re: New task from Projects for the beginner:

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Sep 13th, 2006

Nice code so far!
It would be easier on the user, if you only ask the user numbers to be entered once and then run the computer numbers against that! I like your compare, but there is a flaw. Lists [1,2,3,4,5,6] and [1,3,4,5,6,7] should have 5 matches, your compare would only show 1 match. I got to have time to look at it closer. To segregate 3, 4, 5 or 6 matches you just establish a counter for each. You might have to go to a million plus tries to get 6 matches!

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Re: New task from Projects for the beginner:

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Sep 15th, 2006

Here's the updated version. It went for about 100,000 tries without a match so I killed it, but if it had run long enough it might have matched 3 or more:

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import random
def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers
def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui
total_win = 0
current_win = 0
user_list = user_random()
while total_win < 1:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    print comp_list
    user_list.sort()
    comp_list.sort()
    match = 0
    index = 0
    while index !=  6:
        if comp_list[index] in user_list:
            match = match+1
            index = index+1
        else:
            index = index+1
    print match
    if total_win < 1:
        print "Not alike"
    else:
        print match, "numbers are alike. Well done"
        total_win=total_win+1
    current_win = current_win + 1
print "You got ",total_win," out of ",current_win," matches"
import random
def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers
def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui
total_win = 0
current_win = 0
user_list = user_random()
while total_win < 1:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    print comp_list
    user_list.sort()
    comp_list.sort()
    match = 0
    index = 0
    while index !=  6:
        if comp_list[index] in user_list:
            match = match+1
            index = index+1
        else:
            index = index+1
    print match
    if total_win < 1:
        print "Not alike"
    else:
        print match, "numbers are alike. Well done"
        total_win=total_win+1
    current_win = current_win + 1
print "You got ",total_win," out of ",current_win," matches"

Is this what you had in mind?

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Re: New task from Projects for the beginner:

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Sep 16th, 2006

You are very close, very nice list compare by the way!

Avoid anything within the while loop that slows things down, like print statements. You also don't need any list sorting. Here would be my suggestion ...

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import random
 
def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers
 
def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui
 
# initiate 3, 4, 5 or 6 match counters
match3 = 0
match4 = 0
match5 = 0
match6 = 0
 
user_list = user_random()
 
print "One moment please ..."
tries = 100000
current_win = 0
while current_win < tries:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    #comp_list.sort()  # not needed!
    match = 0
    index = 0
    # note: match += 1 is a short version of match = match + 1
    while index !=  6:
        if comp_list[index] in user_list:
            match += 1
        index += 1
    """
    # for test only ...
    if match > 2:
        print current_win, comp_list, match
    """
    if match == 3:
        match3 += 1
    elif match == 4:
        match4 += 1
    elif match == 5:
        match5 += 1
    elif match == 6:
        match6 += 1
 
    current_win += 1
 
print
print "You got the following matches out of %d tries" % (tries)
print "3 matches = %d" % match3
print "4 matches = %d" % match4
print "5 matches = %d" % match5
print "6 matches = %d" % match6
 
"""
typical result:
You got the following matches out of 100000 tries
3 matches = 1671
4 matches = 89
5 matches = 3
6 matches = 0
"""
import random

def computer_random():
    """Let computer create a list of 6 unique random ints from 1 to 50"""
    numbers=[]
    while len(numbers) < 6:
        ri = random.randint(1,50)
        if ri not in numbers:
            numbers.append(ri)
    return numbers

def user_random():
    """Let user create a list of 6 unique random integers from 1 to 50"""
    print "Enter 6 random integers from 1 to 50:"
    ui = []
    while len(ui) < 6:
        print len(ui)+1,
        i = input("--> ")
        #check if i is unique and has a value from 1 to 50
        #otherwise don't append, could also assure that i is an integer
        if (i not in ui) and (1 <= i <= 50):
            ui.append(i)
    return ui

# initiate 3, 4, 5 or 6 match counters
match3 = 0
match4 = 0
match5 = 0
match6 = 0

user_list = user_random()

print "One moment please ..."
tries = 100000
current_win = 0
while current_win < tries:
    comp_list = computer_random()
    #comp_list.sort()  # not needed!
    match = 0
    index = 0
    # note: match += 1 is a short version of match = match + 1
    while index !=  6:
        if comp_list[index] in user_list:
            match += 1
        index += 1
    """
    # for test only ...
    if match > 2:
        print current_win, comp_list, match
    """
    if match == 3:
        match3 += 1
    elif match == 4:
        match4 += 1
    elif match == 5:
        match5 += 1
    elif match == 6:
        match6 += 1

    current_win += 1

print
print "You got the following matches out of %d tries" % (tries)
print "3 matches = %d" % match3
print "4 matches = %d" % match4
print "5 matches = %d" % match5
print "6 matches = %d" % match6

"""
typical result:
You got the following matches out of 100000 tries
3 matches = 1671
4 matches = 89
5 matches = 3
6 matches = 0
"""

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