-----Original Message-----
>From: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 6, 2007 3:46 PM
>To: Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Python Tutor List <tutor@python.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Ingenious script (IMO)
>
>Dick Moores wrote:
>> At 10:16 AM 8/6/2007, Eric Brunson wrote:
>>
>> Your point about efficiency is well-taken.
>>
>>> def makechange( amount, denominations ):
>>>
>>> coins = {}
>>> for d in denominations:
>>> coins[d] = int( amount/d )
>>> amount = amount%d
>>>
>>> return coins
>>
>> OK, I used this this way:
>>
>> ============================
>> def makechange( amount, denominations ):
>>
>> coins = {}
>> for d in denominations:
>> coins[d] = int( amount/d )
>> amount = amount%d
>>
>> return coins
>>
>> denominations = (2000, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 1)
>> amount = 2218
>> print makechange(2218, denominations)
>> ==================================
>>
>> And get:
>> {1: 3, 100: 2, 5: 1, 1000: 0, 10: 1, 2000: 1, 50: 0, 500: 0, 25: 0}
>>
>> That's the correct change: 3 pennies, 2 $1 bills, 1 nickel, no $10
>> bills, 1 dime, 1 $20 bill, no half-dollars, no $5 bills, no quarters.
>>
>> For amount = 3288:
>> {1: 3, 100: 2, 5: 0, 1000: 1, 10: 1, 2000: 1, 50: 1, 500: 0, 25: 1}
>>
>> Why those weird orders?
>
>Dictionaries are not ordered. If you want to see it in order you could
>sort the list of key, value pairs:
>print sorted(makechange(2218, denominations).items(), reverse=True)
>
>Kent
Do you have a clever, pythonic way to suppress the denominations with "zero"
counts?
Ken
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