Den 2015-07-31 skrev Robin Koch <robin.k...@t-online.de>: > Am 30.07.2015 um 22:31 schrieb Martin Schöön: > >> Scores to the right show how many wishes are fulfilled in each room > > Is it possible the is a mistake in the sum column on the third row? > Should the be a 1?
Indeed. > >> The goal is to re-shuffle the array to maximize this score. >> >> How do I go about doing that? > > Depending on how you store those wishes I'd think you can use > random.shuffle()!? When cruising the net yesterday I came across this and it looked to me it does re-shuffle arrays but not in a way that helps me. Maybe I am wrong. > > But do you think simply maximising the score is the optimal solution to > the problem? It is a start. The result will no doubt need some human post-processing. I am merely hoping to eliminate the grunt-work. (There will be pre-processing too, correcting misspelled names etc...) > That way some kids will get their both wishes fulfilled (s, e and p in <snip> > kids picking each other. Another thing one might want to takeinto > account. :-)) > I did hint at differences between my example and the real problem... /Martin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list