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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Letter Game Refinement

Posted by john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

using set while comparing looks to me like it would skew the result

# len("coconut") = 7 len(set("coconut")) = 5
    while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(set(secret_word)):
Peter Lawless
Peter Lawless
24,404 Points
Peter Lawless
Peter Lawless
24,404 Points

Can you explain what you mean a little more?

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Can you please explain your question in more detail?

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

this code checks the lengths of two lists, bad_guesses and good_guesses. Looking up set I got the impression that it eliminates duplicates. Which, when I compared the len of coconut to len set coconut, it does indeed to that. So how could , ... wait...I just realized that if o is guessed it only goes in good guesses once, so if we do len secret_word it will have the duplicate letters so they will likely never match. Got it, Thanks for your help:D