[Tutor] Recursion always returns None

[Steve Willoughby]

On 28-Aug-12 09:03, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 28/08/2012 16:51, Dharmit Shah wrote:
>>
>> @ Steve : Thank you. As suggested by Dave Angel, I am going to try the
>> loop. And even before implementing it, I can feel that it's going to
>> be more efficient than recursion.
>>
>
> May I ask why you appear to be concerned with efficiency for a hangman
> game?

Not the game per se, but if you're searching a file of thousands of 
words one at a time, randomly picking words and recursing if they're not 
what you intended, the hit--worst case--could be catastrophic.


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