From: YAD <goofball@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T10:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: symbol tricks

Paul Lutus wrote:
> I'm making an assumption here, that you want to find a winning pattern.
I want to calculate several things (at different times), including 
whether a player has two in a row, and whether a player has two blank 
squares that will win the game (two pairs in a row that require 
different squares to be completed).
Since that's a total of six functions, I figured combining rows & cols 
into one function would be the simplest way to reduce the total amount 
of code.

> def find_winner(array)
>    w = test_rows(array) \
>        || test_rows(array.transpose) \
>        || test_diagonals(array)

This looks like the simplest way to do it.  The only concern I would 
have with this solution is performance in searching a whole tree of 
possible future grids.

-- 
Yet another Dan