On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 7:05:24 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:45 AM, MrPink wrote: > > I load the lottery drawings into memory for searching with the following > > code although, it is incomplete. I am stuck and need some guidance. > > > > The set datatype seems to be the best for searching, but how best can I > > implement it? > > > > And I want the results to highlight the numbers that were matched. For > > example, if the white balls in the drawing are: > > "42 15 06 05 29" > > > > AND the numbers on the lottery ticket are: > > "06 15 32 42 56" > > > > THEN the display might look like: > > "06* 15* 32 42* 56" > > > > WHERE * signifies a match. > > > > This suggests that there is an order to the numbers on your ticket > (you want to print them out in the same order), but not to the winning > numbers, which are simply a set. The easiest way to handle that would > be to iterate over your numbers, asking "if number in > winning_numbers:", and printing out a "match" marker if it is or a > "non-match" marker if it isn't. > > ChrisA
Thanks Chris. Very good point. I was just too deep in the weeds to see that simple solution. I was overthinking it. ;-) Sincerely, -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
