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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:22 pm

my fault - mjs sent it and I haven't found much free time ... will post here
when I make it available ...

It's at: http://dinsights.com/POTM/LOAPS/SOURCE/

(the page isn't too pretty, but it should be functional! Will prolly put a
few other things there as well)

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:34 am

Thanks, i got it working on my windows box. Time isn't going down though, but i can live with that.

Kind permission to peek at (and then probably use) your 'isconnected' routine mjs? Or is that against rules (I haven't peeked yet, so no harm done)? I have on of my own, but i fear it'll be slow.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:00 am

Tominator wrote:

Kind permission to peek at (and then probably use) your 'isconnected' routine mjs? Or is that against rules (I haven't peeked yet, so no harm done)? I have on of my own, but i fear it'll be slow.

This from the guy who has the fastest Python entry in the systest. LOL.

MightyByte

P.S. I do know that the systest is meaningless, but still couldn't resist the irony. Smile

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:58 am

Mightybite: heheh Smile

Actually that's also mjs's polas with a method just a bit better than randomly selecting where to go Very Happy

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:51 pm

mightybyte wrote:

Tominator wrote:

Kind permission to peek at (and then probably use) your 'isconnected' routine mjs? Or is that against rules (I haven't peeked yet, so no harm done)? I have on of my own, but i fear it'll be slow.

This from the guy who has the fastest Python entry in the systest. LOL.

MightyByte

P.S. I do know that the systest is meaningless, but still couldn't resist the irony. Smile

Yeah, and "fast isconnected routine" is meaningless as well: My corresponding routine "CountComponents" appears to take typically about 760ns (in my debugging environment, which is slightly slower than the sandbox) and I dare assume that a mere referee will have a slower routine. Anyway, my proggy allows itself more time to spend with a short game than Tominator's with a long 50 move game (looks like I'm rather competing for the slowest win-both-games entry Wink

).

I!m already afraid that the final tournament will be dominated by lots of winning python entries, once they start making use of the allowed 60 seconds...

Hagman

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:32 pm

Indeed my 50d is bad, i know :p I'm working on it.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:27 pm

Hi Tominator,
I am happy you have Harrigan working on a windows box, but puzzled as to why the time function does not work. Any python-on-windows people that can help?

I provided "polas" as a framework that programmers (possible new to python) could try out and modify. In accordance with the POTM-MASTER's wishes, I did not include any game playing logic (other than a generator of valid (but not good (yikes - parenthesis out of control...)) moves). I suspect using the "isconnected()" code violates the spirit (if not the letter) of the rules. I have no problem with anyone using or modifying all-of or parts-of polas or harrigan for any POTM-related purpose, but it is the POTM-MASTER's decision....

If harrigan users have made changes, found bugs, need clarification, or would like an enhancement, please add a note here or send me a private message. I will try to help.

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:55 am

Thanks mjs. I've decided not to look and make my own. It's fast enough in my opinion. You may judge it when the contest is over Wink

BTW: I dislike parenthesis as well. As a first-time pythonner, I still get plenty of errors when doing board.get(x, y) instead of board.get((x, y)), even though I know that and why the first is wrong Very Happy

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:06 am

Tominator wrote:

BTW: I dislike parenthesis as well. As a first-time pythonner, I still get plenty of errors when doing board.get(x, y) instead of board.get((x, y)), even though I know that and why the first is wrong Very Happy

I have the impression that he was talking about the nested parenthesis in his comment, not the program Wink

BTW, if using tuples instead of plain coordinates is really annoying for you, you can always make board a dict subclass and override get:

Code:

class Board(dict):

def get(self, x, y):
return dict.get(self, (x,y))

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:43 am

Tominator wrote:

BTW: I dislike parenthesis as well. As a first-time pythonner, I still get plenty of errors when doing board.get(x, y) instead of board.get((x, y))

Try ruby!

Code:

board.get x, y

Sven.

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:57 pm

hagman wrote:

I!m already afraid that the final tournament will be dominated by lots of winning python entries, once they start making use of the allowed 60 seconds...

Hmmmm, I would say that SYSTEST3 should comfort you a little. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:17 pm

Yes systest3 is hard, whoever it is. But at least it gives a new challenge. Winning from sys2 was too easy apparently Smile

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:43 pm

Mike has updated his referee program and I've posted it to the
"code" secion of the LOAPS pages ...

http://dinsights.com/POTM/LOAPS/code.php

Thanks Mike!