{"id":495,"date":"2006-06-25T23:51:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T23:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-06-25T23:51:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T23:51:24","slug":"python_and_tichu_goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Python and Tichu goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe beginnings of Perl were directly inspired by running into a problem I
\ncouldn’t solve with the tools I had. Or rather, that I couldn’t easily
\nsolve. As the Apostle Paul so succinctly put it, “All things are
\npossible, but not all things are expedient.” I could have solved my
\nproblem with awk and shell eventually, but I possess a fortuitous surplus
\nof the three chief virtues of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience and
\nHubris. I was too lazy to do it in awk because it would have been hard to
\nget awk to jump through the hoops I was wanting it to jump through. I was
\ntoo impatient to wait for awk to finish because it was so slow. And
\nfinally, I had the hubris to think I could do better.
\n
\n  — Larry Wall\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nI wrote my second Python script for Tichu game data this weekend. My first script was recording a game’s score and any GrandTichu or Tichu calls made. It would take that data and generate an HTML table. Which I would then paste into my game reports. It works well enough for me. So I stopped improving on it. Although certain others would disagree and argue that the data is not presentented effectively.\n<\/p>\n

\nHowever, I still have an urge for more data shown about a game. So I wrote a program that would take this<\/a> and output this<\/a>. Last Thursday, Adam and I tried to enter hand data during our game of Tichu. And I have learned that it is slow, takes thought power away from playing the game, and other people are not so understanding about this process. So, I am going to set up a camera to take a picture during evey hand played. Hopefully, this will finally allow me to finally record every hand played during the game. Of course, data entry will be a bitch!\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd what do I intend to do with this data? Who knows… if you build it, they will come! Perhaps a cute flash app to present the game. Perhaps a data-mining application. Or perhaps an ugly HTML table that others can complain about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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