Answer to Question #169734 in Python for srikanth

Question

Tic-Tac-Toe game
Abhinav and Anjali are playing the Tic-Tac-Toe game. Tic-Tac-Toe is a game played on a grid that's three squares by three squares. Abhinav is O, and Anjali is X. Players take turns putting their marks in empty squares. The first player to get 3 of her marks in a diagonal or horizontal, or vertical row is the winner. When all nine squares are complete, the game is over. If no player has three marks in a row, the game ends in a tie. Write a program to decide the winner in the Tic-Tac-Toe game.
Input

The input will be three lines contain O's and X's separated by space.
Output

The output should be a single line containing either "Abhinav Wins" or "Anjali Wins" or "Tie".
Explanation

For example, if the input is 

O X O
O X X
O O X 

 
as three of O's are in vertical row print "Abhinav Wins".
Sample Input 1
O X O
O X X
O O X
Sample Output 1
Abhinav Wins

Sample Input 2
O O X
X X O
X O O
Sample Output 2
Anjali Wins

Answer 1

theBoard = {'7': ' ', '8': ' ', '9': ' ',
            '4': ' ', '5': ' ', '6': ' ',
            '1': ' ', '2': ' ', '3': ' '}

board_keys = []

for key in theBoard:
    board_keys.append(key)

''' We will have to print the updated board after every move in the game and 
    thus we will make a function in which we'll define the printBoard function
    so that we can easily print the board everytime by calling this function. '''


def printBoard(board):
    print(board['7'] + '|' + board['8'] + '|' + board['9'])
    print('-+-+-')
    print(board['4'] + '|' + board['5'] + '|' + board['6'])
    print('-+-+-')
    print(board['1'] + '|' + board['2'] + '|' + board['3'])


# Now we'll write the main function which has all the gameplay functionality.
def game():
    turn = 'X'
    count = 0

    for i in range(10):
        printBoard(theBoard)
        print("It's your turn " + turn + " ,Move to which place?")

        move = input()

        if theBoard[move] == ' ':
            theBoard[move] = turn
            count += 1
        else:
            print("That place is already filled.\nMove to which place?")
            continue

        # Now we will check if player X or O has won,for every move after 5 moves.
        if count >= 5:
            if theBoard['7'] == theBoard['8'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ':  # across the top
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['4'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['6'] != ' ':  # across the middle
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['2'] == theBoard['3'] != ' ':  # across the bottom
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['4'] == theBoard['7'] != ' ':  # down the left side
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['2'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['8'] != ' ':  # down the middle
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['3'] == theBoard['6'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ':  # down the right side
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['7'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['3'] != ' ':  # diagonal
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break
            elif theBoard['1'] == theBoard['5'] == theBoard['9'] != ' ':  # diagonal
                printBoard(theBoard)
                print("\nGame Over.\n")
                print(" **** " + turn + " won. ****")
                break

                # If neither X nor O wins and the board is full, we'll declare the result as 'tie'.
        if count == 9:
            print("\nGame Over.\n")
            print("It's a Tie!!")

        # Now we have to change the player after every move.
        if turn == 'X':
            turn = 'O'
        else:
            turn = 'X'

            # Now we will ask if player wants to restart the game or not.
    restart = input("Do want to play Again?(y/n)")
    if restart == "y" or restart == "Y":
        for key in board_keys:
            theBoard[key] = " "

        game()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    game()