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11 - Bagels
to the user.
13. if guess == secretNum:
14. return 'You got it!'
The
getClues()
function will return a string with the fermi, pico, and bagels clues,
depending on what it is passed for the
guess
and
secretNum
parameters. The most
obvious and easiest step is to check if the guess is the exact same as the secret number. In
that case, we can just return
'You got it!'
.
16. clue = []
17.
18. for i in range(len(guess)):
19. if guess[i] == secretNum[i]:
20. clue.append('Fermi')
21. elif guess[i] in secretNum:
22. clue.append('Pico')
If the guess is not the exact same as the secret number, we need to figure out what clues to
give the player. First we'll set up a list named
clue
, which we will add the strings
'Fermi'
and
'Pico'
as needed. We will combine the strings in this list into a single
string to return.
We do this by looping through each possible index in
guess
and
secretNum
(they both
are the same size). We will assume that
guess
and
secretNum
are the same size. As the
value of
i
changes from
0
to
1
to
2
, and so on, the
if
statement checks if the first, second,
third, etc. letter of
guess
is the same as the number in the same position in
secretNum
. If
so, we will add a string
'Fermi'
to clue.
If that condition is
False
we will check if the number at the
i
th position in
guess
exists anywhere in
secretNum
. If this condition is
True
we know that the number is
somewhere in the secret number but not in the same position. This is why we add the
'Pico'
to
clue
.
23. if len(clue) == 0:
24. return 'Bagels'
If we go through the entire
for
loop above and never add anything to the
clue
list, then
we know that there are no correct digits at all in
guess
. In this case, we should just return
the string
'Bagels'
as our only clue.
