Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'exception': 0.03; 'arguments': 0.07; 'false.': 0.07; 'subject:Question': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'iterate': 0.09; 'throw': 0.09; 'def': 0.10; 'encountered.': 0.16; 'returned,': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'written,': 0.17; 'code,': 0.18; 'all,': 0.21; 'trying': 0.21; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'values': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'checking': 0.27; 'possible,': 0.27; 'post': 0.28; 'behavior.': 0.29; 'complain': 0.29; 'indentation': 0.29; 'piece': 0.29; 'character': 0.29; 'included': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'code': 0.31; "aren't": 0.33; 'like:': 0.33; 'true.': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'that,': 0.34; 'wrong': 0.34; 'list': 0.35; 'false': 0.35; 'returning': 0.35; 'so,': 0.35; 'doing': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'list.': 0.35; 'explain': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'characters': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'below,': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'received:74.208': 0.71; 'retype': 0.91 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:36:45 -0500 From: Dave Angel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Question on for loop References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:u0yjvq0FSfpkt+lklAQZ3knTuVCczwOAOCJYIrH7UuV DYlfqC/CEnz8NUH8/tTi23AObyYQsCWHVghlTvxPAbcQ+2JsmE XQhUxtrhM/bKZ/Ptr/C1j4gNxu8f2h301nYJBPZMUas4iYTVA+ PF/K5QGuEt0J787GZcInf6OzkddmsIXgSwhK9zY3wQzgjN3KOG toKv01GiNyOszJ1vUuxiga0hdXyDHGmi3bZx9U9Wkm9qpZG0gF KjHdYneZpd6XneebBZvk1X++G6UPgCBh25ZkmkmY+dGQIYeZ87 AJjRs1Pcgl75gUfRzL8hr25gKuA82/Bqh38De5RYEp/WqyMdw= = X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362404218 news.xs4all.nl 6841 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41455 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40445 On 03/04/2013 07:18 AM, newtopython wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm super new to python, just fyi. Welcome to the Python list. > > In the piece of code below, secretWord is a string and lettersGuessed is a list. I'm trying to find out if ALL the characters of secretWord are included in lettersGuessed, even if there are additional values in the lettersGuessed list that aren't in secretWord. > > What this code is doing is only checking the first character of secretWord and then returning True or False. How do I get it to iterate through ALL of the characters of secretWord? > > for character in secretWord: > if character not in lettersGuessed: > return True > return False > Please post a complete sample when possible, and make sure you copy/paste it, not just retype it and hope. As written, it'll throw an exception when return is encountered. But before that, it'll complain about the indentation of the return True. Perhaps you have something like: def has_some_behavior(secretWord, lettersGuessed): for character in secretWord: if character not in lettersGuessed: return True return False If so, please copy the whole thing from your code, and explain just how you call it (what arguments are passed), what it returned, and what's wrong with that behavior. -- DaveA