This is a program that generates assignments of gifts for a group of people where the total number of gifts given/received by any person is bounded below the total number of people in the group.
The idea is to reduce burden and inefficiency of holiday gift giving by simplifying and randomizing the giving.
Say you have 5 people, you might decide that each person will give and receive 2 gifts, and the assignment generator will generate random assignments of giver to recipient. The generator tries to avoid situations like one person being assigned multiple gifts to one other person, or having people exchange gifts (A->B and B->A), where possible.
To generate your own, fork this repo and execute
$ PYTHONPATH=$PWD roundrobin/assignment.py --format tsv_slots --slots GivesTo1 GivesTo2 -- Happy Grumpy Sleepy Sneezy Doc
The output might be like this:
GivesTo1 GivesTo2
Happy Grumpy Doc
Grumpy Doc Sleepy
Sleepy Sneezy Happy
Sneezy Happy Grumpy
Doc Sleep Sneezy
Other formats are possible with the --format option. Execute --help for details.
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