On 15/02/2013 13:11, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 15 February 2013 11:36, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: >> And the "how shall we represent the board?" question is pretty >> much the first thing any team asks themselves. And you always >> get someone in favour of lists of lists, someone for one long >> list, > > I always get confused when doing this about which of my coordinates > needs to be multiplied (i.e. whether I am in Fortran or C order).
How true. This last time, my team split into two: one half to handle the display, the other working on the algorithm. We ended up having to draw a really simple diagram on the back of an envelope with the x,y pairs written out and pass it back and forth as *everyone* kept forgetting which went first. >> (Also I seem to remember that the OP was advised earlier precisely >> to abandon lists of lists in favour of something else). > > Actually the suggestion was for the list of lists (instead of a flat list). Ah, ok. I'd only followed the thread casually. (And I was too lazy to go back and check). TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list