Rock Paper Scissors Coding | Dataford Interview Questions

RAMP Consulting Group is prototyping a lightweight code-review game for interview practice. Implement a function that determines the winner of one Rock Paper Scissors round.

Given two valid moves, player1 and player2, return "Player 1" if the first move wins, "Player 2" if the second move wins, or "Tie" when both moves are identical.

Formal Specification

Input: Two strings, player1 and player2. Each string is exactly one of "rock", "paper", or "scissors".
Output: A string containing "Player 1", "Player 2", or "Tie".
Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and paper beats rock.

Constraints

player1 and player2 are lowercase strings
Each move is exactly one of "rock", "paper", or "scissors"
The function evaluates one round only

Function Signature

def rps_winner(player1, player2):

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