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Python

Posted by Nigel Chia
Nigel Chia
909 Points

explain the len(good_guesses)!= len(list(secret_words))

need some help

1 Answer

behar
behar
10,800 Points
behar
behar
10,800 Points

It would be nice if you added what assignment your doing. However the len function allows you to list how many charachters a string or list is. Say you have:

test = "something"
# Then:
len(test) = 9
# If you do it for list, you get how many string or numbers are in the list so:
list = ["something", "test", "whatever"]
len(list) = 3

The != in you code is saying that something is not equale. So what youre saying is that the length of good guesses, is not equal to the len of the list, secret words. Id dont know what your doing right now, but im assuming your going to want af if infront of that statement, else it dosent really have much meaning. Hope this helps