Problems with string and lists (searching and replaceing)
Colin Fox
cfox at cfconsulting.ca
Sun Sep 21 17:08:04 EDT 2003
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:40:30 +0200, Ulrich Petri wrote:
> "jblazi" <jblazi at hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:pan.2003.09.21.06.55.07.16000 at hotmail.com...
>> I shall have a computer science class this year and I decided to use
>> Python. It is my favourite language and I have used it for many years. Now
>> I thought, one of our first "real" programs, in our pre-graphical and
>> pre-class state, would be to write simple program that works like this:
>>
>> One of the pupils enters a word. It should be a valid German word
>> consisting of five letters, for example 'abcde' (which is not a German
>> word by the way).
>>
>> The the other player may enter a guess which must be a five letter word as
>> well, for example 'xbxxx'. Then the system answers with the string '-*---'
>> as the 'b' in 'xbxxx' was correct and at the right place as well.
>>
>> Had the second player entered 'xxxbx', the system had responded with
>> '---.-', as the 'b' is correct but not correctly positioned.
>>
>> The second player must find out the original word.
>>
>
> Hm sth. like this?
>
> -----code------
> def mastermind(word, guess):
> if len(word) != len(guess):
> return "Error"
> ret = ["-"]*len(word)
> counter = 0
> for lw, lg in zip(word, guess):
> if lw == lg:
> ret[counter] = "x"
> else:
> if lg in word:
> ret[counter] = "."
> counter += 1
> return "".join(ret)
>
>>>> mastermind('haus', 'hasu')
> 'xx..'
>>>> mastermind("jaguar", "januar")
> 'xx-xxx'
> -----code-----
Here's an alternative. I took out the 'if lg in word' logic,
since that doesn't take into account duplicates and therefore
would be misleading (ie 'jaguar','jaaaaa' would return 'x.....',
but there aren't 5 a's in the word).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
def wordcheck(word, guess):
outstr = []
if len(word) != len(guess):
raise "Wrong number of letters in guess."
for x in range(len(word)):
outstr.append( ['-','*'][(word[x]==guess[x])] )
return string.join(outstr,'')
res = wordcheck('Colin','Coolo')
print res
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