compare dictionaries

[Gary Herron]

On 09/07/2010 01:26 PM, Baba wrote:
> On 7 sep, 22:08, Gary Herron<gher... at digipen.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> On 09/07/2010 12:46 PM, Baba wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> word= 'even'
>>> dict2 = {'i': 1, 'n': 1, 'e': 1, 'l': 2, 'v': 2}
>>>        
>> Just go through each letter of word checking for its existence in
>> dict2.  Return False if one misses, and True if you get through the
>> whole word:
>>
>> def ...():
>>     for c in word:
>>       if c not in dict2:
>>         return False #if any character is not in dict
>>     return True      # otherwise
>>
>> If you know of generator expressions, and remember that True and False
>> are 1 and 0 respectively, then this works
>>
>> def ...():
>>       return sum(c in dict2   for c in word) == len(word)
>>
>> Gary Herron
>>
>> --
>> Gary Herron, PhD.
>> Department of Computer Science
>> DigiPen Institute of Technology
>> (425) 895-4418
>>      
> ok but how do we address the fact that letter e needs to have the
> value 2 in the dictionary if it was to be True? in my example this
> condition is not met so the check would return False. Word is not
> entirely composed of letters in dict2, one of the letter is not in
> dict2 i.e. the 2nd e
>    

Huh???   I answered the problem as it was stated in the email -- it said 
nothing about *counting* the occurrences of letters.  In order to not  
waste our (voluntary) time, perhaps you should carefully re-state the 
problem you'd liked solved.   Then we'll see what we can come up with.


> So finding a matching key seems to be the easy part, checking if the
> number of ocurrences of letter in 'word' == letter.value seems to be
> the tricky part
>
>    


-- 
Gary Herron, PhD.
Department of Computer Science
DigiPen Institute of Technology
(425) 895-4418