In article <f64c9de2-3285-4f74-adb8-2111c78b7...@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>, Ross <ross.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Apr 13, 9:08=A0am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <c569228f-f391-4317-83a2-08621c601...@r8g2000yql.googlegroups.= >com>, >> Ross =A0<ross.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>I'm sorry...my example was probably a bad one. A better example of >>>output I would like would be something like [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] and >>>then for the leftovers list [7,8,9,10 etc]. What I'm trying to do is >>>produce some sort of round robin algorithm for tennis that is >>>constrained by the number of courts available each week. So if there >>>are only 3 courts available for a singles league and 10 people have >>>signed up, 4 players will have a bye each week. I want my algorithm to >>>produce unique matchups each week and also give each player the same >>>angle? >> >> How about Googling for "round robin algorithm python"? ;-) > >I have the basic algorithm and it works fine...I'm just having trouble >adding another parameter to it that allows for court constraints and >bye weeks.
You'll need to give us more information, then. Why don't you start with the core algorithm you're using? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list