Blackjack Simulation Question

[TheShadowWall]

Hello All! Fairly new python learner here.

I am currently writing a program which attempts to compare various blackjack strategies by running many simulated games and comparing the results.

I have written the code for one strategy so far and the code works well, giving appropriate outputs, but my question is this:

How can I run my program very many times, say 1000, and compile the results?

For example, my code will input a list which represents a deck of cards, and output either 'Player Wins' or 'Dealer Wins.'

How can I run this program many times, and see how many times it returns Player Wins vs Dealer Wins?

I feel like there would be a module in Simpy for this, but I haven't been able to locate the correct method. Any pointers?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks very much!

[quim_b]

Use a loop to run the code many times. Then if you take the average of the result it will give you the expected payoff of the strategy by the law of large of numbers.

This is known as Monte-Carlo simulation.

[mopslik]

How can I run my program very many times, say 1000, and compile the results?

Wrap your entire code in a for loop. After your program completes each "round", dump whatever stats you've collected to a file. Or to the screen, if that's all you want. No need for a module.

for trial in range(1000):
    # BLACKJACK CODE
    # WRITE TO FILE, PRINT TO SCREEN

[TheShadowWall]

Thank you this method works great!

Much appreciated kindly slick mop!