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Determine if a list contains a specific number of an item - flannel_man - Nov-11-2016
Hello! I am a complete noob when it comes to programing and have been trying to teach myself python by creating homework problems for myself... I'm also a poker player, so one of my goals is to figure out how to create an odds calculator (mostly by tinkering and figuring out the most efficient way as I go.) So, here is my question:
I have the program create a random poker hand of 7 cards which is a list of lists:
rank=['A','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','T','J','Q','K']
suit=['c','d','h','s']
import itertools
deck=list(itertools.product(rank,suit))
import random
card1=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card1)
card2=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card2)
hand=(card1,card2)
print ("hand: ", hand)
card3=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card3)
card4=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card4)
card5=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card5)
flop=(card3,card4,card5)
print ("flop: ", flop)
card6=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card6)
turn=card6
print ("turn: ", turn)
card7=(random.choice(deck))
deck.remove(card7)
river=card7
print ("river: ", river)The output will be something like this:[('3', 'd'), ('T', 'c'), ('7', 'h'), ('4', 'h'), ('6', 'c'), ('Q', 'h'), ('J', 'h')]
I then used this to pull out the first item of each list and make a new list:
all7=[card1,card2,card3,card4,card5,card6,card7] first=[] iall7=iter(all7) for (a,b) in iall7: first.append(a) print (first)Output for the previous result of random cards is:
['3', 'T', '7', '4', '6', 'Q', 'J']
I now want the program to look through this list and determine if exactly two items on the list are equal and return a specific value if they are. (Basically, I want the program to determine if the poker hand contains a pair). How do I do it without having to write an if statement for each 2 item combination individually?
RE: Determine if a list contains a specific number of an item - micseydel - Nov-11-2016
What do you mean an if statement for each two-item combination? Why can't you just compare them? Can you write a few lines of what you mean as an example?
RE: Determine if a list contains a specific number of an item - flannel_man - Nov-12-2016
(Nov-11-2016, 05:28 PM)micseydel Wrote: What do you mean an if statement for each two-item combination? Why can't you just compare them? Can you write a few lines of what you mean as an example?
if first[0]==first[1]:
print ('pair')
elif first[0]==first[2]:
print ('pair')
elif first[0]==first[3]:
print ('pair')
#etcetera
else:
print ('no pair')I would have to write an 6+5+4+3+2+1=21 'if' statements if I did it this way. And this is also only to determine if the hand contains 2 of the same rank.It's going to be a million lines of code if I put in all the different hand types such as 2 pair, trips, straights, flushes, full houses, etc. this way.
RE: Determine if a list contains a specific number of an item - micseydel - Nov-12-2016
I think collections.Counter may help.
from collections import Counter
hand = [('3', 'd'), ('2', 'c'), ('2', 'h'), ('3', 'h'), ('3', 'c'), ('Q', 'h'), ('J', 'h')]
counter = Counter(card[0] for card in hand)
counter.most_common()
# -> [('3', 3), ('2', 2), ('Q', 1), ('J', 1)]With this, you can look for four- and three-of a kind as well as a pair.