Jack Diederich wrote: > You might want to look at a specific purpose library for poker hands: > http://pokersource.sourceforge.net/
Nah, evaluating the poker hands is the FUN part! I want to do that myself :) > If you really want to do combinations a C extension has already > been written (by me). > > http://probstat.sourceforge.net/ > > import probstat > cards = range(52) > for (hand) in probstat.Combination(card, 5): > pass > > Takes 1.3 seconds on my laptop instead of 17 seconds for the pure > python version which is only one order of magnitude faster. This is *exactly* what i wanted! I just installed it and the hand generation is down to around 1.2 seconds now, and that I can live with :) Now I just have to reduce the running time of the actual hand evaluation with an order of magnitude... ;) Thanks! -- Frode, SIM "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
