On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:58 PM, kreglet <kreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
sorry, 'get' is what I meant. You also need to add "return True" on the same
level as the else.
In [5]: word1 = {'d':1, 'o':1, 'g':1}
In [6]: word2 = {'g':1, 'o':1}
In [7]: in_word(word2, word1)
Out[7]: True
In [24]: word2 = {'b':1, 'a':1, 'r':1}
In [25]: in_word(word2, word1)
Out[25]: False
HTH,
Wayne
_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
