Creating a truth table for any expression in Python

Question

I am attempting to create a program that when run will ask for the boolean expression, the variables and then create a truth table for whatever is entered. I need to use a class

Answer 1

You probably want to do something like this:

from itertools import product
for p in product((True, False), repeat=len(variables)):
    # Map variable in variables to value in p
    # Apply boolean operators to variables that now have values
    # add result of each application to column in truth table
    pass

But the inside of the for loop is the hardest part, so good luck.

This is an example of what you would be iterating over in the case of three variables:

>>> list(product((True, False), repeat=3))
[(True, True, True), (True, True, False), (True, False, True), (True, False, False), (False, True, True), (False, True, False), (False, False, True), (False, False, False)]

Answer 2

You could simply define any boolean function right in python.

consider the following example:

def f(w,x,y,z):
    return (x and y) and (w or z)

I've wrote a snippet that takes any function f, and returns its truth table:

import pandas as pd
from itertools import product

def truth_table(f):
    values = [list(x) + [f(*x)] for x in product([False,True], repeat=f.func_code.co_argcount)]
    return pd.DataFrame(values,columns=(list(f.func_code.co_varnames) + [f.func_name]))

Using this will yield (in a nicely formatted html if you're using IPython Notebook):

truth_table(f)

    w       x       y       z       f
0   False   False   False   False   False
1   False   False   False   True    False
2   False   False   True    False   False
3   False   False   True    True    False
4   False   True    False   False   False
5   False   True    False   True    False
6   False   True    True    False   False
7   False   True    True    True    True
8   True    False   False   False   False
9   True    False   False   True    False
10  True    False   True    False   False
11  True    False   True    True    False
12  True    True    False   False   False
13  True    True    False   True    False
14  True    True    True    False   True
15  True    True    True    True    True

Cheers.

Answer 3

I have a library that does exactly what you want! Check out the github repo or find it here on pypi.

The readme describes how everything works, but here's a quick example:

from truths import Truths
print Truths(['a', 'b', 'x', 'd'], ['(a and b)', 'a and b or x', 'a and (b or x) or d'])
+---+---+---+---+-----------+--------------+---------------------+
| a | b | x | d | (a and b) | a and b or x | a and (b or x) or d |
+---+---+---+---+-----------+--------------+---------------------+
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |     0     |      0       |          0          |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |     0     |      0       |          1          |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |     0     |      1       |          0          |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |     0     |      1       |          1          |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |     0     |      0       |          0          |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |     0     |      0       |          1          |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |     0     |      1       |          0          |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |     0     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |     0     |      0       |          0          |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |     0     |      0       |          1          |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |     0     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |     0     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |     1     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |     1     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |     1     |      1       |          1          |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |     1     |      1       |          1          |
+---+---+---+---+-----------+--------------+---------------------+

Hope this helps!