Note: This isn't as much a golfing challenge; it is more so asking for golfing suggestions.
Recently I had a Python assignment for my web development class, in order to check whether we could code. Since I already feel comfortable in Python, I decided to try and golf it, and I was wondering if people could point out things that I missed.
I already know that there are extra spaces in some places, but I'm more interested in conceptual things, like using while r:
when r is a variable, and then waiting for it to "run out"!
import random
from collections import Counter
s=l=''
c=['yellow','blue','white','green','Black', 'purple', 'silver', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'red']
n=[10,15,1,10,6,15,10,25,1,12,5,10,4,6,5,12,0,10,1,1]
o=i=0
for y in c:l+=y[0]*(random.randint(n[o],n[o+1]));o+=2
l=list(l)
print("Welcome to the CIMS Gumball Machine Simulator\nYou are starting with the following gumballs:")
for b in c:print(str(l.count(b[0])) + " "+b);random.shuffle(l)
print("Here are your random purchases:")
while 'r' in l:
random.shuffle(l); r=l.pop(); s+=r
for j in c:
if j[0] == r:print(j.capitalize())
print("You purchased %i gumballs, for a total of $%.2f \nMost common gumball(s):" % (len(s),len(s)*25/100))
a=Counter(s).most_common()
m=[x[1] for x in a]
while m[0] == m[i]:
for j in c:
if j[0] == a[i][0]:print(j.capitalize(), end=" ")
if(i<(len(m)-1)):i+=1
else:break
Also: I'm sorry if this isn't an appropriate question for the code golf page, since it is not a challenge and will remove it on request.
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, but just to check) \$\endgroup\$ – Sp3000 Feb 24 '15 at 4:15