This has been shamelessly borrowed from Chris Luce, as he showed them in one of my tutorials last week.
This example shows a Tic Tac Toe board, to see if there is a win in a board, or if it’s a cats game.
def printBoard(board):
for i in range(0, len(board)):
for j in range(0, len(board[0])):
print board[i][j],
print
def checkWinner(board):
#check columns for winner
for i in range(0, len(board)):
if board[0][i] == "X" and board[1][i] == "X" and board[2][i] == "X":
return "X"
elif board[0][i] == "O" and board[1][i] == "O" and board[2][i] == "O":
return "O"
#check rows for winner
for i in range(0, len(board[0])):
if board[i][0] == "X" and board[i][1] == "X" and board[i][2] == "X":
return "X"
elif board[i][0] == "O" and board[i][1] == "O" and board[i][2] == "O":
return "O"
if board[0][0] == "X" and board[1][1] == "X" and board[2][2] == "X":
return "X"
elif board[0][0] == "O" and board[1][1] == "O" and board[2][2] == "O":
return "O"
if board[0][2] == "X" and board[1][1] == "X" and board[2][0] == "X":
return "X"
elif board[0][2] == "O" and board[1][1] == "O" and board[2][0] == "O":
return "O"
board = []
board.append(['X','O','X'])
board.append(['X','X','O'])
board.append(['O','O','X'])
printBoard(board)
winner = checkWinner(board)
if winner == "X" or winner == "O":
print "The winner is ", winner
else:
print "Cat's game"This example uses a 2 dimensional list, which you may find helpful to understand for your assignment.