I am working on ps5. My is_valid_word runs the test successfully but. I have inlcuded a loop that checks to make sure no letter is used more than time than it appears in the hand. When I run this test it modifies hand. and the program returns an incorrect hand because I also run the update_had function.
How do I create a second version of hand that is not assigned to the same value as hand and can be modified independently. I need to create a second dictionary indentical too but independent of the first one.
Thanks in advance

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I am working on ps5.  My is_valid_word runs the test successfully but.  I have inlcuded a loop that checks to make sure no letter is used more than time than it appears in the hand.  When I run this test it modifies hand.  and the program returns an incorrect hand because I also run the update_had function.
How do I create a second version of hand that is not assigned to the same value as hand and can be modified independently.  I need to create a second dictionary indentical too but independent of the first one.
Thanks in advance

anonymous · Answer

dict(original) will return a copy of the original one.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks. I found another method that took two steps.  This saves one.of those.  Much appreciated.