Question

On problem set 5, somehow my implementation of play hand updates the hand, even though I am not running update_hand. Can anyone see why? I don't know what I am doing wrong.

link to code:http://codepad.org/PPsHSgME

line 217: update_hand disabled, but still updates letters

Answer 1

If I understood correctly, your problem is that is_valid_word is doing the updating for you :-).

If you don't want the function to actually update copy the hand before using hand.copy.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Thanks, I didn't remember that I updated the hand in that function. Now I can sleep again at night.