phevaluator 0.5.0.1

PH Evaluator - an efficient Poker Hand Evaluator based on a Perfect Hash algorithm

PH Evaluator Python package (phevaluator)

Description

PH Evaluator is designed for evaluating poker hands with more than 5 cards. Instead of traversing all the combinations, it uses a perfect hash algorithm to get the hand strength from a pre-computed hash table, which only costs very few CPU cycles and considerably small memory (~100kb for the 7 card evaluation). With slight modification, the same algorithm can be also applied to evaluating Omaha poker hands.

Installation

The library requires Python 3.

• from release on PyPI

  pip install phevaluator
  

• from source code

  pip install .
  

Using the library

The main function is the evaluate_cards function.

from phevaluator import evaluate_cards

p1 = evaluate_cards("9c", "4c", "4s", "9d", "4h", "Qc", "6c")
p2 = evaluate_cards("9c", "4c", "4s", "9d", "4h", "2c", "9h")

# Player 2 has a stronger hand
print(f"The rank of the hand in player 1 is {p1}") # 292
print(f"The rank of the hand in player 2 is {p2}") # 236

The function can take both numbers and card strings (with a format like: 'Ah' or '2C'). Usage examples can be seen in examples.py.

Test

• The pre-calculated tables (phevaluator.tables) are tested by comparing them with the tables generated by test codes.
• The functionality of the evaluators is tested by comparing with the JSON files generated by the original C++ evaluator.
• The functionality of the other modules is tested by its purposes.

python3 -m unittest discover -v

Development

• install from source code with editable mode

  pip install -e .
  

  The installed package reflects changes to files inside the phevaluator folder automatically.

• recommended to format with black before commit

  check where to correct (without formatting)

  black . --diff --color
  

  format all

  black .