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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Sets Out Of This Word Game

the errors won't stop

The errors won't stop it could someone please compare mine to his i really don't know what to do is says: "guess = get_guesss(bad_guesses | good_guesses) TypeError: get_guesss() missing 1 required positional argument: 'good_guesses'"

import random import os import sys

make a list of words

words = [ 'apple', 'banan', 'orange', 'lime', 'lemon', 'melon', 'blueberry' 'kumquat' 'coconut' 'grapefruit' 'lychee' ] def clear(): if os.name == 'nt': os.system('cls') else: os.system('clear')

def draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word): clear()

print('strikes: {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
print('')

for letter in bad_guesses:
    print(letter, end=' ')
print('\n\n')

for letter in secret_word:
    if letter in good_guesses:
        print(letter, end='')
    else:
        print('_', end ='')

print('')

def get_guesss(bad_guesses, good_guesses): while True: guess = input("Guess a letter:").lower()

    if len(guess) != 1:
        print("you can only guess a single letter!")           
    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!")
    else:
        return guess

def play(done): clear() secret_word = random.choice(words) bad_guesses= set() good_guesses = set() word_set = set(secret_word)

while True:
    draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word)
    guess = get_guesss(bad_guesses | good_guesses)

    if guess in word_set:
        good_guesses.add(guess)


        if not word_set.symmetric_difference(good_guesses):
            print("You win !!")
            print("The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
            done = True
    else:
        bad_guesses.add(guess)
        if len(bad_guesses) == 7:
            draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word)
            print("You lost!")
            print("The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
            done = True

    if done:
        play_again = input("Play again? Y/n").lower()
        if play != 'n':
            return play(done = False)
        else:
            sys.exit()

def welcome(): start = input("Press enter/return to start or Q to quit").lower() if start == 'q': print("Bye") sys.exit() else: return True

print('Welcome to Galgje 3.0!')

done = False

while True: clear() welcome() play(done)

1 Answer

Miroslav Kovac
Miroslav Kovac
11,454 Points

Your function expect 2 arguments:

def get_guesss(bad_guesses, good_guesses):

but in your code you call it with only one argument:

get_guesss(bad_guesses | good_guesses)

the result of union of 2 sets is only one set....