mwdsmith wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to python, and I'm not sure if this is the place to post
> this kind of question; so feel free to tell me if I should take this
> elsewhere.
>
> So, to start me off on python, I decided to put together a little
> script to test the probabilities of rolling certain combinations of
> dice. Below is my code for checking for a full house (when rolling
> with 5 dice). A roll is a list, eg [1, 3, 5, 1, 4] (this example is
> not a full house)
>
> def removeAll(element, num2Rem, list):
> l = list[:]
> for num in range(0, num2Rem):
> l.remove(element)
> return l
>
> def isfullHouse(roll):
> for die in range(1,7):
> if roll.count(die)==3:
> l = removeAll(die, 3, roll)
> if l[0]==l[1]:
> return 1
> return 0
>
> My questions is this: is there a better way to do this? A way that's
> more natural to python, or just more efficient perhaps?
>
> ps. A roll of [1, 2, 1, 1, 2] is a full house (three of one kind and
> two of another)
def isFullHouse(roll):
counts = [roll.count(die) for die in range(1,7)]
counts.sort()
return counts == [0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 3]
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