24_game_puzzle

Loop Through

def common_elements(list1, list2):
    return list(set(list1) & set(list2))

import itertools
fileidx = 1
for x,y in itertools.combinations(cards, 2):
    match = common_elements(x, y)
    print(len(match), match)
    if len(match):
        for m in range(len(match)):
            print("Holding out", match[m], "in", x,y)
            singleton = [int(x1) for x1 in str(match[m])]
            left = [r for  r in x if not r in singleton]
            right = [r for  r in y if not r in singleton]
            fname = "../output/double_var_" + str(fileidx) + "_sol_" + str(match[m]) + ".jpg"
            print_to_file(left, right, fname)
            fileidx += 1 

print to a file

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
_DEBUG = False
def print_to_file(list1, list2, fname):
    offset=0.25
    x = [0,4*offset,4*offset,8*offset,11*offset, 11*offset,14*offset]
    x = [e+0.3 for e in x]
    y = [2.1,1,3.2,2.1,1,3.2,2.1]
    y = [e-0.4 for e in y]

    
    labels = list1 + ["?"] + list2
    labels = [str(i) for i in labels]
    
    plt.figure(num=None, figsize=(5,4), dpi=80, facecolor='w', edgecolor='k')


    #plt.plot(x,y, 'k.')
    for label, x, y in zip(labels, x,y):
        plt.annotate(
            label,
            xy=(x, y), xytext=(0, 0),
            textcoords = 'offset points',
            size=40)

    #plt.axis('off')
    
    circle1 = plt.Circle((7 *offset, 2), 1.5, color='#ffd533', alpha=0.9)
    circle2 = plt.Circle((13 *offset, 2), 1.5, color='#ffd533', alpha=0.9)
    
    fig = plt.gcf()
    ax = fig.gca()
    ax.axes.get_xaxis().set_visible(False) #turn off axes tickmarks
    ax.axes.get_yaxis().set_visible(False) #we need the axis for the facecolor
    ax.set_facecolor((0, 0, 1))
    ax.add_artist(circle1)
    ax.add_artist(circle2)
    plt.ylim( 0, 4 )   
    plt.xlim( 0, 5 )   
    #fig.set_facecolor('blue')


    plt.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight')
    if DEBUG:
        plt.show()