On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Wayne<sri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did a quick test and this code seems to work correctly:
> def countletters(word):
> lettercount = {}
> for letter in word:
> lettercount[letter] = lettercount.get(letter, 0) + 1
> return lettercount
> def comparewords(cmpword, mainword):
> for letter in cmpword:
> if mainword.get(letter):
> if cmpword[letter] > mainword[letter]:
> return False
This could be
if cmpword[letter] > mainword.get(letter, 0):
The whole loop could be simplified a bit using dict.items():
for letter, count in cmpword.items():
if count > mainword.get(letter, 0):
return False
Kent
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