So I spent a little time the other day applying what little I know of Python to the concept of picking Powerball lottery numbers because I had nothing much else to do that the time. In the interest of not only content put putting more of my terrible code out there for people to laugh at I present my simple powerball picker script.
#!/usr/bin/python
from array import *
from random import *
num = array('i')
def create_array():
for i in range(0,59):
ins = i + 1
num.insert(i, ins)
return num
def pick_a_number():
your_number = ''
for n in range(1,6):
ca = create_array()
pick = randrange(0,len(ca))
your_number += str(ca[pick])
your_number += ' '
# now we exclude the number
num.pop(pick)
print "Your Picks >> "+your_number+" Powerball: "+str(randrange(1,36))
start = 1;
stop = int(raw_input("How many picks would you like to generate? "))
for p in range(start, stop+1):
pick_a_number()
* note – if you win a huge jackpot with numbers from this send a few bills my way!
