I need a little nudge into the right direction with this problem. As an exercise for me to learn about Python, I am trying to determine the best way to search a list of "lottery drawings" for a match with a lottery ticket.
Possible numbers for a drawing are: 5 whiteballs (wb): 1-55 1 blackball (bb): 1-49 example: wb1, wb2, wb3, wb4, wb5, bb Example list of lottery drawings: date,wb,wb,wb,wb,wb,bb 4/1/2011,5,1,45,23,27,27 5/1/2011,15,23,8,48,22,32 6/1/2011,33,49,21,16,34,1 7/1/2011,9,3,13,22,45,41 8/1/2011,54,1,24,39,35,18 ... Typically a lottery ticket can have multiple combinations for the ticket to be a winner. For example: 2 wb, 1 bb 3 wb 3 wb, 1 bb 4 wb 4 wb, 1 bb 5 wb 5 wb, 1 bb (jackpot winner) An object oriented solution might be to create a list of "Drawing" objects and then loop through the list to find a match for the ticket object. For example: if oDrawing[x] == ticket then "Do XYZ" Or I could just perform this task with procedures and loops and skip the object solution idea. Do Python developers have a preference? Would it be worth the overhead to initialize a list of drawing objects to search through? There is no database back-end, so no SQL, etc. I hope all that makes sense. Thanks for you help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
