Program Ignoring If Statement, And Printing True When False

I am writing a simple program for a homework problem and It seems to be skipping my if statement. I have looked at other questions posed, and the problems there do not seem to be m

Solution 1:

if i insecretWord== False:

This doesn't do what you think it does. If you want this path to be taken when i isn't in secretWord, you want

        if i not in secretWord:

What you have does a chained comparison. First, it checks

i in secretWord

If that's true, it then checks

secretWord == False

If that's true (which it won't be), it then takes the if path.

Solution 2:

Replace if i in secretWord == False: with if i not in secretWord

Solution 3:

Wouldnt it be the same just doing:

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defisWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):

ifnot lettersGuessed:
    returnFalsefor i in lettersGuessed:
    if i notin secretWord:
        returnFalsereturnTrue

What your doing is called chained comparisons.

Edit: My bad, too late

BR Daniel

Solution 4:

The other answers explain the error in the code well, but you can simplify your code a bit like this:

defisWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    for i in lettersGuessed or ['_']: # uses ['_'] when lettersGuessed = []ifnot i in secretWord:
            returnFalsereturnTrue

You can do also do this with a generator expression and all():

defisWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    returnall([i in secretWord for i in lettersGuessed] or [False])