pip install -r requirements.txt

Or manually install matplotlib and hps-nyu

Place your logic in my_solution() on line 352 and the code should do the rest for you.

If you do not want to mess with the validator file, you are free to follow the approach below (for other languages) and you should be fine with using another .py file.

NOTE: The readdata() return the list of objects and not a dictionary. You can use object.prettify() to get the dictionary instead.

Input: The data will be in the data.txt file

The given format is:

person(xloc,yloc,rescuetime)
1,1,10
...
...
2,2,20

hospital(numambulance)
1
2
3

Output: Once you calculate your results, generate a "result.txt" file with the following format

PN is the path of that particular ambulance.

Hospital:x_coordinate,y_coordinate,num_ambulances
...
Hospital:x_coordinate,y_coordinate,num_ambulances

Ambulance: P1: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate) P2: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate) ... PN: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate)  
...
Ambulance: P1: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate) P2: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate) ... PN: (x_coordinate,y_coordinate)

You can refer to the "sample_result.txt" to get the idea.

Validation: Once done with your code, you can then validate the result using the following:

(Sorry, but you need to learn how to run python file for this)

python validator.py

If you wish to disable the graph plot, simply comment the plot() on line 382

validator.py

by Yusuke Shinyama (yusuke at cs dot nyu dot edu)

(Python2.3 or higher required to run this program.) -- <The updated git for Fall 2021 uses Python 3.x>

USAGE:

Give the original data file and the output file to the program:

 $ ./validator.py datafile resultfile

Or you can feed the result from stdin:

 $ yourprogram datafile | ./validator datafile

The result file should be like this:

 Ambulance: 1: (45,32), 5: (84,26,95) total: 92
 Ambulance: 1: (45,32), 6: (64,30,74), 11: (56,26,80) total: 53
 Ambulance: 1: (45,32), 42: (29,42,67) total: 54
 Ambulance: 2: (59,68), 8: (68,57,52) total: 42
 Ambulance: 2: (59,68), 14: (66,47,58) total: 58
 ...

I assumed that every line should begin with a string 'Ambulance' (case ignored). Then one hospital and one or two people follow. The last 'total' value is ignored. Intermediate blanks and commas are ignored, so

    ambulance:   2  : ( 59 ,  68 ) , 8 : (  68, 57,52)    foo bar

is still considered as a valid input.

SAMPLE RUN:

$ ./validator.py sample_data sample_result Reading data: sample_data Reading results... Rescued: 47: (58,41,85) and 20: (62,50,112) taking 73 Rescued: 11: (56,26,80) and 6: (64,30,74) taking 53 Rescued: 5: (84,26,95) taking 92 Rescued: 44: (82,55,74) taking 74 Rescued: 25: (82,67,56) taking 50 Rescued: 19: (64,75,47) and 33: (69,72,37) taking 37 Rescued: 10: (58,95,108) taking 58 Rescued: 8: (68,57,52) taking 42 Rescued: 14: (66,47,58) taking 58 Rescued: 45: (36,57,55) and 28: (35,57,39) taking 17 Rescued: 43: (30,50,73) and 42: (29,42,67) taking 39 Rescued: 39: (38,41,69) taking 26 Rescued: 34: (24,65,56) taking 54 Rescued: 9: (39,77,58) taking 56 Rescued: 46: (25,53,34) taking 28 Rescued: 3: (17,20,102) taking 100 Rescued: 18: (18,1,71) and 4: (15,7,78) taking 63 Rescued: 24: (58,15,87) taking 60 Rescued: 40: (74,11,96) taking 84 Rescued: 31: (86,9,116) taking 104 Total score: 26