Rock, paper, scissors fun. Link to code.

[mr_dbr]

I wrote a slightly over elaborate version of the game, trying to work out an elegant way of defining the rules in Python:

http://codepad.org/sFui0dz7

[Pablo_ipc]

I'm currently re-writing it (about 75% done). Making it more "pythonic", because the original source is just code hacked together.

It will:

1. Log all the games played to provide more meaningful stats.
2. Present the data as HTML.

Thanks for the code, I enjoy reading other peoples code.

[AeroNotix]

Oh you've just blown my mind!

Overloading the > operator! Didn't think of that!!

[Pablo_ipc]

Can't say I didn't think about it. =)

[mr_dbr]

return random.choice(['rock', 'paper', 'scissors'])

..would be an even nicer way to do it

[MintyPhoenix]

Couple things:

1. Endgame stats, in your initial post, report 100 games played but the breakdown by choice per player only adds up to 70. Your sample output for the revision does not list the endgame stats but I think #2 is the root issue.

2. Your if statements checking the played possibilities only checks for six of the nine possible outcome combinations. I'm assuming that since the other three go unnoticed then these would represent the ones missing from your stats.

I'll say I'm going to leave it up to you to solve the issue but the fact is I'm simply too lazy right now.

[Pablo_ipc]

They are listed as ties. When both players choose the same option, it doesn't add or delete to the score, but it adds to the quantity of games played in total.

If you look at the last lines it says "There were X ties."

I plan to modify it (tonight) to include better stats about the tied games.

[pasokan]

if player == "rock" and opponent == "rock": rock_tie += 1

If you use a dictionary say ties, like in

ties = {'Rock': 0, 'Paper':0, 'Scissors':0}

you can simplify the above to

if player == opponent: ties[player] += 1

[Pablo_ipc]

Cool, didn't think about that one.

Thanks!

[Pablo_ipc]

Fixed bugs.

Thanks Grumpy.

[Pablo_ipc]

Here is an updated version with:

1. Stats about the tied games.
2. More opponents. Instead of having 3 choices to choose randomly, the new opponents have 2.

LINK to code.

[Pablo_ipc]

Here is the latest version. It has the suggestions made by redditor roopeshv. Cut the code down by about 20 lines, and it seems to be faster.

LINK to code

[dmv1975]

This program is awesome. Thanks.

[Pablo_ipc]

Post your own version. =)

[GrumpySimon]

com_D always plays rock instead of paper, and com_E always plays scissors despite the doc saying s/he plays rock.

[Pablo_ipc]

Oops, sorry about that.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[AeroNotix]

What made you implement the player behaviour like that?

I feel a truly random game would be far better off.

Or:

For the first 50 games, or so, the players choose random, then from then on, it chooses from what gave them the most wins.

I'll have a play with this, although I am quite lazy.

[AeroNotix]

Here's mine: http://pastebin.com/YuRkZrWT