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Joeseph Wolfe
Courses Plus Student 1,010 PointsNot able to get a win (even if i guess all the right letters)
Hello,
I am unable to get to a win, even when I guess all the right letters. My program will look like this:
Guess a letter: y
blueberry
Strikes: 0/7
Below is my code:
import random
#make a list of words
words = [
'apple',
'bannana',
'coconut',
'strawberry',
'lime',
'grapefruit',
'lemon',
'kumquat',
'blueberry',
'melon'
]
while True:
start = input("Press enter/return to start or enter Q to quit: ")
if start.lower() == 'q':
break
#pick a random word
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses = []
good_guesses = []
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
#draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
for letter in secret_word:
if letter in good_guesses:
print(letter, end='')
else:
print('_', end='')
print('')
print('Strikes: {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
print ('')
#take guess
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
if len(guess) != 1:
print("You can only guess a single letter!")
continue
elif guess in bad_guesses or guess in good_guesses:
print("You've already guess that letter !")
elif not guess.isalpha():
print("You can only guess letters!")
continue
if guess in secret_word:
good_guesses.append(guess)
if len(good_guesses) == len(list(secret_word)):
print("You win! the word was {}".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didn't guess it! My Secret wird was {}".format(secret_word))
#print out win/lose
[MOD: added ```python formatting -cf]
3 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsMany have hit this bug. The issue occurs when the secret word has a repeated letter making its length always greater than the guesses length.
Kenneth mentions a solution in one of the later videos and in one of the Teacher's notes.
The key is to collapse the secret work in a unique list of letters. The set function work well here. Changing you `while condition:
# from:
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
# to:
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(set(secret_word)):
Should work.
Joeseph Wolfe
Courses Plus Student 1,010 PointsThanks Chris, that answers my question.
Patrick Kearns
4,669 PointsThis still doesn't fix it. Now when I correctly guess a word with a repeated letter, it tells me I lost regardless of the number of strikes.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsHey Patrick, it might be something else in your code. I encourage you to start a new post and include your code. Tag me if you wish.
Nikolaj Bewer
1,150 PointsHey Pratrick, the same occurred when I fixed it. What helped me is changing:
from
if len(good_guesses) == len(list(secret_word)):
to
if len(good_guesses) == len(set(secret_word)):
(it's around line 59).
john larson
16,594 Pointsjohn larson
16,594 PointsChanging "set" in those TWO places worked, but why? What does "set" do? Ok so it does this: "collapse the secret word in a unique list of letters". But what does that mean? like alien letters? Collapse? How? Is that literal or just jargon.
Leeland Miller
2,199 PointsLeeland Miller
2,199 Points@john larson set() is an unordered collection with no duplicate elements.
so if your secret_word = 'avocado', and you run: set(secret_word) it would return {'c', 'a', 'v', 'o', 'd'}