Need guidance for creating a function

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Hello Everyone,
I need someone to guide me to create a function that loop through 2 words and return matching letters as an integer. I am making a guessing game and I don’t expect anyone to do my code, I just need some suggestions.
Suppose we have word_1 and word_2 as ‘Hello’ and ‘Hi’ , and word_1 is the password and word_2 is the guess. In order to give a hint to user I need the function to return numbers of matching letters.
Please note user will input an integer not the words itself.
So far I got,
def compare(word_1 ,word_2):
matched=0
for letter in range(len(word1)):
if letter == range(len(word2)):
matched+=1
matched.append(letter)
return matched

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I need someone to guide me to create a function that loop through 2 words and return matching letters as an integer.

Your function looks good! So, not sure what kind of guidance you’re seeking? My version:
Use List Comprehension which returns iterable, then returns the length.

def compare(word_1, word_2):
    return len([i for i in word_1 if i in word_2])

Use Set to cast both word_1 and word_2 to Set data type, then perform intersection:

def compare(word_1, word_2):
    return len(set(word_1).intersection(set(word_2)))

Please note user will input an integer not the words itself.

Not too clear what this means?

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Thanks for your time replying to my question

I meant that I have enumerated my list of possible correct answer(let’s say 7 words) , and the user will input the number of the corresponding word not the word itself.

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Ah I see, that’s a nice guessing game :+1:

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thank you so much
could you please help me with this as well?
My loop does not end even if the guess is correct. maybe I have done my values in correctly?
guess= None
if guess!= password:
** won= False**
elif guess==password:
** won= True**

while guess_remaining>0 and won==False:
** print (‘The password is one of these words:’)**
** guess=(int(input(‘Please Make your guess by entering the corresponding word number:’)))**
** for index, words in enumerate(word_list, 1):**
** print(index, words)**

** if guess!= password:**
** guess_remaining-=1**
** won= False**
** print(‘Incorrect guess, you still have’, guess_remaining, ‘guesses(s) remaining’)**
** elif guess==password:**
** print(‘Spot on, you, You guessed it while you had’, guess_remaining, ‘guesses remained’)**
** won= True**

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Hello! Could you please format your code correctly? See this post, as it preserves whitespace. What is the current output for your code?

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Sure can

password= random.choice(word_list)
guess= None
if guess!= password:
    won= False
elif guess==password:
    won= True
while guess_remaining>0 and won==False :
    print ('The password is one of these words:')
    for index, words in enumerate(word_list, 1):
        print(index, words)
    guess=(int(input('Please Make your guess by entering the corresponding word number:')))
    if guess==password:
        print('Spot on, you, You guessed it while you had', guess_remaining, 'guesses remained')
        won==True
   
    elif guess!= password:
        guess_remaining-=1
        print('Incorrect guess, you still have', guess_remaining, 'guesses(s) remaining')
        won==False
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The issue is here:

== is an equality operator, which means it checks for equality. So here, all you’re doing is going does won equal True?.