Question

if anyone have finish retrice 6 , Problem #3: Computer Player. could you please show me some light how to write this?

Answer 1

Practrice 6 i mean..

Answer 2

say you have a hand with 5 letters. you have to make permutations of those letters with lengths of 1 - 5; check to see if a permutation is in the wordlist, if it is in the wordlist get its score, 'save it' if it has the highest score

below is a partial list of two letter and 3 letter permutations for a hand with 'abcde'
for each one, search the wordlist and see if it has the highest score - you would also need 4 and 5 letter permutations

ab
ac ad ae ba
bc bd be ca
cb cd ce da
db dc de ea
eb ec ed abc
abd abe acb acd
ace adb adc ade
aeb aec aed bac
bad bae bca bcd
bce bda bdc bde
bea bec bed cab

Answer 3

thanks bwCA, thats exactly where i got stuck. wondering how to do 3 letters list?
i can do one , word= 'abc' : for letter in range(3): print word[letter]
but how to it 2 or 3?
thanks in advance

Answer 4

The net is an excellent resource as well as the Python documentation. Once you have an idea of what you want to do, more likely than not someone has done it or something similar to it before (at least at this stage of the game) - which is great cause you don't have to reinvent stuff. in this case you could search for "permutation Python". I have also found wikipedia a great help - it explains algorithms so you can try to 'build-your-own'..And while I usually find what I want elsewhere, I stumbled across this and it looks interesting
http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/.

Python v2.6+ has a permutations function in the itertools module that works great.
http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html

Answer 5

thanks above..i didn't know how to call it until u show me "permutation". i guess i should i ask this instead, nextime :) cheers