I am trying to create a sort of version of Wordle in python (just for practice). I am having difficulty communicating to the player which letters in their guess match (or closely match) the letters in the target word.
I can highlight matches (i.e. where the letter is in the right place) using uppercase, but I don't know how to differentiate between letters which have a match somewhere in the target word and letters which do not appear at all. The relevant code is below:
def compare_words(word,guess):
W = list(word)# need to turn the strings into list to try to compare each part
G = list(guess)
print(W) # printing just to track the two words
print(G)
result =[ ] # define an empty list for our results
for i in range(len(word)):
if guess[i] == word[i]:
result.append(guess[i].upper())
elif guess[i] in word:
result.append(guess[i])
else:
result.append(" ")
print (result)
return result
# note, previous functions ensure the length of the "word" and "guess" are the same and are single words without digits
x = compare_words("slide","slips")
['s', 'l', 'i', 'd', 'e']
['s', 'l', 'i', 'p', 's']
['S', 'L', 'I', ' ', 's']
As you can see, the direct matches are upper, the other matches are unchanged and the "misses" are left out. This is not what I want, are usually the whole guess is spat back out with font change or colours to indicate the matches.
I have looked into bolding and colours but it all at the point of printing. I need something built into the list itself, but I am unsure if I can do this. Any ideas?
Cheers
