Frode Øijord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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 :)
Note that you're looking at 24x more hands than you really need to, since poker hand evaluation doesn't change if you re-label the four suits. It's not like bridge, where spades beat hearts and so forth. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
