How can I improve this program?

Question

https://code.sololearn.com/cH1CTweh88rI/?ref=app

Answer 1

My instinct would be to do as Airree has said. I would do something like:

winning_combos = {{0,1,2}, {3,4,5}, {6,7,8}, {0,3,6}, {1,4,7}, {2,5,8}, {0,4,8}, {2,4,6}}

x, o = {}, {}

Then for all 'x' moves, add the index to x's set. Same for o's moves. Comparison using

if any(i < x for i in winning_combos):

Also, your program accepts 9 as an input, but the highest index is 8.

Answer 2

(array is roughly the same as list)
When I made my Tic Tac Toe game, I used 3 arrays instead of one: one for x, one for o, and one for the winning scenarios. I pushed the places index to the x array when x placed somewhere. Every turn, I checked if one of the winning scenarios is the subarray of one of the teams' array

This way, the code was shorter