Any Python Programmers Out There??

[AProudLefty]

Here's another clue:

There are possible values of two or three variables that add up to a number each row. Subtract 30 from known entries and work from there.

Let linear algebra work it's magic for the magic square.

[AProudLefty]

Those are possible values for those two unknowns for the first row.

PLst = [2, 0, 4, 5, 7, 0, 3, 2]
print(sum(PLst))
Sub = 30 - sum(PLst)
print(Sub)
#Clue here
for i in range(1,Sub):
    print(i,Sub - i)

Result

23
7
1 6
2 5
3 4
4 3
5 2
6 1

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Maybe I am a Drunken Computer Programmer. Like that Drunken Kung Fu Master Jackie Chan? Once he's drunk, all of sudden he's an expert at it.

Are you an alcoholic?

[Trumpet]

Are you an alcoholic?

He's not, but you are.

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Remember I was drunk and already explained and just now explained again to Havana Moon? Heh.

Now what do you think of my core dump? Seems like Python doesn't like matrices. I am new to Python.

Maybe you should read this first before commenting?

https://www.programiz.com/python-pro...ultiply-matrix

[Niche Political Commentor]

I contacted my son and he said this.

we fucking know tom, your son said what I said like 40 hours ago at this point

[Bubba]

Then you suck because that shouldn't happen.

Yeah, can't argue. Just curious: How is it constructive for you to point that out??

[Niche Political Commentor]

OK, I do get it. (I think.) Code works now. Thank you and thanks to APL for the time you guys spent explaining it.

Now I'm ready to move on. The original problem in the book of puzzles was an 8 X 8 grid. Each horizontal line similar to my PLst: [2, 0, 4, 5, 7, 0, 3, 2] with some of the numbers in each line missing. Those are the ones I filled in with zero.

The challenge is to make each horizontal line AND each vertical line add to thirty. Well, I'll just type the entire puzzle.

[2, 0, 4, 5, 7, 0, 3, 2]
[0, 4, 1, 6, 0, 1, 9, 0]
[4, 0, 0, 1, 0, 8, 2, 4]
[1, 5, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 2]
[0, 6, 4, 3, 0, 4, 2, 6]
[7, 3, 4, 0, 2, 5, 1, 0]
[0, 1, 6, 7, 1, 0, 0, 2]
[1, 0, 2, 0, 3, 2, 5, 0]

So all sixteen lines have to add to thirty. Now that you've pointed me in the right direction, I'm going to forge ahead and attempt to finish the puzzle.

i assume you can't use numbers large than 9 in the grid?

[AProudLefty]

Are you an alcoholic?

Is it alcoholic if I just love beer?

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we fucking know tom, your son said what I said like 40 hours ago at this point

You're a touchy arsehole, seem to have big ego issues. Who are you anyway, definitely not a newbie?

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we fucking know tom, your son said what I said like 40 hours ago at this point

Is it alcoholic if I just love beer?

Depends on how much and how often. Well at least you've not graduated to spirits!

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we fucking know tom, your son said what I said like 40 hours ago at this point

It's Grind, Tom.

Ah well that would explain everything, obviously had a bad Xmas, did his mother force him to go to midnight Mass again?

My son explained in a clear easily understandable way without all the extraneous bullshit and need to have his ego massaged. He's thinking about writing a Python how-to guide in Japanese for his fellow workers at Softbank.

[Niche Political Commentor]

Ah well that would explain everything, obviously had a bad Xmas, did his mother force him to go to midnight Mass again?

My son explained in a clear easily understandable way [..bunch of shit no one cares about]

this is what your son said:

I contacted my son and he said this:
The variable I is the value inside the array, not its index

Hence it is wrong to write Plst[I]

Instead it should be just I in the if statement

hmm where have we heard that before

OPs problem is doing the "if list[i] == 0" conditional

Just do:

for item in list:
----if item == 0:
--------<other stuff goes here>

if list[item] == 0: <--- don't do this

rather than just simply using

if item == 0:

DO. NOT. USE. "if PLst[I] == 0" Don't. STOP!

The conditional should be "if i == 0"

do so by doing if element == x. Not if list[element] == x.

his issue is wrongly trying to evaluate an element by doing if list[item] == 0

[AProudLefty]

for i in JPPAssholes:
   print(i)

What would the results be?

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we fucking know tom, your son said what I said like 40 hours ago at this point

this is what your son said:



hmm where have we heard that before

Happy Xmas to you as well, did you get laid? I'm guessing not.