Assignment 5: Problem #3. I understand how to compare the word with word_list, but I'm struggling a little with comparing it with hand. What happens when a word has too many letters for a value in the dict ? (word=hello, while hand includes l:1 (instead of l:2)

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Assignment 5: Problem #3. I understand how to compare the word with word_list, but I'm struggling a little with comparing it with hand. What happens when a word has too many letters for a value in the dict ?  (word=hello, while hand includes l:1 (instead of l:2)

anonymous · Answer

well, then you can't make that word with that hand.
are you having trouble with the actual comparison?
could you turn the word into a letter-frequency dictionary then compare the two dictionaries?  or possibly use the count function with the word? ... i.e. 'hello'.count('l') returns 2.

anonymous · Answer

I'll try both ! :)

anonymous · Answer

I created a copy of the dictionary, for each letter in the WORD I took it out of the copy of the hand dictionary, then checked if the letter was less then zero (l:-1), i've attached my is valid word function if you want to take a look

anonymous · Answer

hey, if you could put your code on dpaste.com, it would be a lot more accessible so people can look at it