Comments on: Ugh, Election

By: tinkerer

tinkerer — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:28:42 +0000

Nah, you're obviously the engineer/math/nerdy type. Everyone knows you guys can't spell. ;>

Which doesn't at all explain why I got it wrong, too! IndepenDEnt.

Bah.

(Spell check! It has ruined us ALL!)

Darcy Casselman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:07:46 +0000

I spent all that time getting my Python syntax right, you expect perfect spelling too? Sheesh.

tinkerer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:06:32 +0000

What is a “a mediocre indepentant”? Or did you mean, “indepenDAnt”? ;>

Matt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:59:28 +0000

Awesome!

Python!

Vote for Guido!

Oddly, I had a hockey pool picker that worked much the same way (except I had a lot less invested in both time and interest)...

import random

data = ["Team 1", "Team 2"]

print random.choice(data)

(There was a version that let me feed in a series of tuples to the list for big picks... I even did a Ruby version for kicks...)

My Python script was dead wrong until I started inverting the results... then it was dead on.

(Worth keeping in mind re: your election script... Though Python might be better with politics than sports...)