[Tutor] data question

[Roelof Wobben]

hello, 
 
Still one question.
 
Every game is a dictonary/tuple ?
 
Regards,
 
Roelof

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> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 06:24:16 -0700
> From: alan.gauld at btinternet.com
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] data question
> To: rwobben at hotmail.com
>
> OK, So you want a list of games (possibly one per tournament
> if you need to compare across tournies) where for each game
> you store: homeTeam, awayTeam and scores.
>
> Each game could be represented as either a tuple or a dictionary
> depending on how you want to extract the data:
>
> game['home'] or game[0]
>
> The list should probably be a list... :-)
>
> Try defining a short sample database in Python then try
> extracting some values to get a feel for what suits you
> best. Create the data in a module(easier to edit mistakes/changes)
> Then use the>>> prompt to import the data module and play
> around with it.
>
> That way it's easy to change from lists to tuples to dictionaries
> and see what works.
>
> Ultimately this may even be best done using a database but
> that's probably a step too far for you just now.
>
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn To Program website
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Roelof Wobben 
>> To: alan.gauld at btinternet.com; tutor at python.org
>> Sent: Saturday, 2 October, 2010 14:15:33
>> Subject: RE: [Tutor] data question
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> To: tutor at python.org
>>> From: alan.gauld at btinternet.com
>>> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:10:25 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] data question
>>>
>>>
>>> "Roelof Wobben" wrote
>>>
>>>> As a test I would write a programm where a user can input game-data
>>>> like home-team, away-team, home-score, away-score) and makes a
>>>> ranking of it.
>>>
>>>> In which datatype can I put this data in.
>>>>
>>>> I thought myself of a dictonary of tuples.
>>>
>>> A dictionary would be good for the basic data but I assume there
>>> are more than one of these data items? If so what do they represent?
>>> How would they be used?
>>>
>>> We need a bit more information, even some sample datya might help.
>>>
>>> It could be a list of dictionaries or even a dictionary of
>>> dictionaries.
>>>
>>> Alan G.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Hello Alan,
>>
>> What I meant was this:
>>
>> Let's say we have a tournament of 4 teams A,B,C,D
>>
>> They played this games.
>>
>> A - B 20 - 30
>> C - D 23 - 67
>>
>> These data must be stored so I can make a module which make a ranking like
>>this :
>>
>> 1) C 1 - 2 76 - 23
>> 2) B 1 - 2 30 - 20
>>
>> I hope you know what I wan
>>
>>
>> Roelof
>>