Matches list of powerball numbers against the powerball.com published numbers

matcher.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# note that this will no longer work since they changed the API location
# and I really don't care enough about this to update the script.  Sorry!

import httplib
import json


conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.powerball.com')

conn.request('GET', '/api/v1/numbers/powerball/recent')

resp = conn.getresponse()

try:
        rdr = resp.read()
except:
        None


conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.powerball.com')

conn.request('GET', '/api/v1/estimates/powerball')

resp = conn.getresponse()

try:
        estrep = resp.read()
        est = json.loads(estrep)
except:
        None


draw = json.loads(rdr)

# {u'field_draw_date': u'2018-03-17', u'field_multiplier': u'2', u'field_winning_numbers': u'22,57,59,60,66,07'}

foo = draw[0]['field_winning_numbers'].encode('ascii').split(',')

dwb = foo[0:5]
dpb = foo[5]

wins = { 'JACKPOT' : 0, 'MATCH5': 0, 'MATCH4PB' : 0, 'MATCH4' : 0, 'MATCH3' : 0, 'MATCHPB' : 0 , 'LOSS' : 0 }

with open('billion_powerball_numbers_fixed.txt', 'r') as fp:
#with open('test.txt', 'r') as fp:
        for line in fp:
                aaa = line.strip().split(',')
                pwb = aaa[0:5]
                ppb = aaa[5]
                ct = len([x for x in pwb if x in dwb])
                pb = (ppb == dpb)
        
                if ( ct == 5 ) and ( pb ):
                        wins['JACKPOT'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 5 ):
                        wins['MATCH5'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 4 ) and ( pb ):
                        wins['MATCH4PB'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 4 ):
                        wins['MATCH4'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 3 ) and ( pb ):
                        wins['MATCH4'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 3 ):
                        wins['MATCH3'] += 1
                elif ( ct == 2 ) and ( pb ):
                        wins['MATCH3'] += 1
                elif ( pb ):
                        wins['MATCHPB'] += 1
                else:
                        wins['LOSS'] += 1


        
print "JACKPOT SPLITS %10d %s %s" % ( wins['JACKPOT'],  est[0]['field_prize_amount'], est[0]['field_prize_amount_cash'] )
print "MATCH 5        %10d $%d"   % ( wins['MATCH5'],   wins['MATCH5'] * 1000000)
print "MATCH 4+PB     %10d $%d"   % ( wins['MATCH4PB'], wins['MATCH4PB'] * 50000)
print "MATCH 4        %10d $%d"   % ( wins['MATCH4'],   wins['MATCH4'] * 100)
print "MATCH 3        %10d $%d"   % ( wins['MATCH3'],   wins['MATCH3'] * 7)
print "MATCH PB       %10d $%d"   % ( wins['MATCHPB'],  wins['MATCHPB'] * 4)

total = wins['MATCH5'] * 1000000 + wins['MATCH4PB'] * 50000 + wins['MATCH4'] * 100 + wins['MATCH3'] * 7 +  wins['MATCHPB'] * 4

print "TOTAL WIN %d TOTAL EXPENSE 2000000000 PROFIT %d" % ( total, total - 2000000000 )