Wayne,
> def myfunc(cmpword, mainword):
> for letter in cmpword:
> if mainword.gets(letter):
> if cmpword[letter] >mainword[letter]:
> return False
> else:
> return False
I tried your function and couldn't get it to work. It threw an error in the
line "if mainword.gets(letter):" saying that "gets" was not an attribute of
dictionary. I tried it with "if mainword.get(letter):" -- no s but that
would't work either.
I've been playing with this most of the day and this is what i came up with:
from operator import itemgetter
class letters:
def __init__(self):
self.lettercount={}
self.inlist=False
self.inword=False
self.mainword=""
self.cmpword=""
lc=letters()
def countletters(word):
lc.lettercount = {}
for letter in word:
lc.lettercount[letter] =lc.lettercount.get(letter,0) + 1
print sorted(lc.lettercount.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1))
lc.mainword="batty"
lc.cmpword="batyy"
countletters(lc.mainword)
mainword = lc.lettercount
countletters(lc.cmpword)
cmpword = lc.lettercount
lst=[]
for key in cmpword.keys():
for ky in mainword.keys():
if key<>ky:
pass
else:
lst.append(key)
for key in cmpword.keys():
if key not in lst:
lc.inlist=False
break
else:
lc.inlist=True
# At this point the program stops if a letter is in cmpword that is not in
mainword
# What I try to do next is compare the values of the dictionary keys( this
is where I'm getting confused)
# get keys/values from cmpword
# compare the values of the keys from mainword that match the keys from
cmpword
# if there is a key in mainword that is not in cmpword, ignore it
# if a key is the same in both compare the values
#if the value of a key that is in cmpword is greater the the value of the
corresponding key in mainword then cmpword would not be in mainword
----------------------------------------------------------
cmpkeys=[]
cmpvals=[]
if lc.inlist==True:
for key, val in cmpword.items():
cmpkeys.append(key)
cmpvals.append(val)
for a in range(len(cmpkeys)):
for ky, vl in mainword.items():
if cmpkeys[a]==ky: #?????
if cmpvals[a]>vl: #????
lc.inword=False
else:
lc.inword=True
print cmpkeys[a], cmpvals[a] , ky, vl
print
if lc.inword==True:
print lc.cmpword + " is IN: " + lc.mainword
else:
print lc.cmpword + " is Not in: " + lc.mainword
Lol, it aint pretty, and it almost works. If you change the letters in
lc.cmpword you'll see what I mean.
There's got to be another way :)
cheers,
kreglet
Wayne-68 wrote:
>
>
>
> That's correct - your function countletters returns None, so you're
> assigning cmpword to None. And since None is not an iterable type, it
> throws
> an error. Try returning a value like I mentioned above and see how that
> works.
>
> HTH,
> Wayne
>
>
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