# A set of functions to deal with bags of money. # # JMR 2017 # Face values of coins (in cents): COINS = [200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1] def value(bag): """Return total amount in a bag.""" totalValue = 0 for coin in bag: totalValue += bag[coin] * coin return totalValue def transfer1coin(bag1, c, bag2): """Try to transfer one coin of value c from bag1 to bag2. If possible, transfer coin and return True, otherwise return False.""" if bag1[c] == 0: return False bag1[c] -= 1 bag2[c] = 1 if c not in bag2 else bag2[c] + 1 return True def transfer(bag1, amount, bag2): """Try to transfer an amount from bag1 to bag2. If possible, transfer coins and return True, otherwise, return False and leave bags with same values.""" # Uses a support method not to reuse the coins if they will make the process not possible return transferProcess(bag1, amount, bag2, COINS) def transferProcess(bag1, amount, bag2, coins): bagBackup = (bag1.copy(), bag2.copy()) amountBackup = amount firstUsedCoin = None for coin in coins: while amount >= coin and transfer1coin(bag1, coin, bag2) and amount > 0: amount -= coin if firstUsedCoin is None: firstUsedCoin = coin if amount == 0: return True for coin in COINS: bag1[coin] = bagBackup[0][coin] if coin in bagBackup[0] else 0 bag2[coin] = bagBackup[1][coin] if coin in bagBackup[1] else 0 if len(coins) == 1: return False return transferProcess(bag1, amountBackup, bag2, COINS[COINS.index(firstUsedCoin)+1:]) def strbag(bag): """Return a string representing the contents of a bag.""" # You may want to change this to produce a more user-friendly # representation such as "4x200+3x50+1x5+3x1=958". string = "" for coin in bag: if bag[coin] != 0: string = f"+{bag[coin]}x{coin}{string}" string = f"{string[1:]}={value(bag)}" return string def main(): # A bag of coins is represented by a dict of {coin: number} items bag1 = {1: 4, 2: 0, 5: 1, 10: 0, 20: 5, 50: 4, 100: 2, 200: 1} bag2 = {} # Test the value function. assert value({}) == 0 assert value({1: 7, 5: 2, 20: 4, 100: 1}) == 197 # Test the strbag function. print(strbag({1: 7, 5: 2, 20: 4, 100: 1})) # 1x100+4x20+2x5+7x1=197 print(strbag({1: 7, 5: 2, 10: 0, 20: 4, 100: 1})) # 1x100+4x20+2x5+7x1=197 print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) # bag1: 1x200+2x100+4x50+5x20+1x5+4x1=709 print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) # bag2: =0 print(transfer1coin(bag1, 10, bag2)) # False! print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) # bag1: 1x200+2x100+4x50+5x20+1x5+4x1=709 print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) # bag2: =0 print(transfer1coin(bag1, 20, bag2)) # True print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) # bag1: 1x200+2x100+4x50+4x20+1x5+4x1=689 print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) # bag2: 1x20=20 print(transfer1coin(bag1, 20, bag2)) # True print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) # bag1: 1x200+2x100+4x50+3x20+1x5+4x1=669 print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) # bag2: 2x20=40 print(transfer(bag1, 157, bag2)) # True (should be easy) print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) # bag1: 1x200+1x100+3x50+3x20+2x1=512 print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) # bag2: 1x100+1x50+2x20+1x5+2x1=197 print(transfer(bag1, 60, bag2)) # not easy, but possible... print("bag1:", strbag(bag1)) print("bag2:", strbag(bag2)) return if __name__ == "__main__": main()