Question

level: beginner

word= 'even' 
dict2 = {'i': 1, 'n': 1, 'e': 1, 'l': 2, 'v': 2} 

i want to know if word is entirely composed of letters in dict2
my approach:

step 1 : convert word to dictionary(dict1)

step2:

for k in dict1.keys(): 
        if k in dict2: 
               if dict1[k] != dict2[k]: 
                   return False 
               return True 

by adding a print statement i can see that this simply ends too early
e.g. as soon as the first IF condition is met the loop exits and i won’t get a correct answer. i think this is easy but google and python doc didn’t return any good
hints so i’m trying here.

Thanks Baba

UPDATE

the number of times that each letter ocurs in the word needs to be smaller or equal to the number of times it apears in dict2. That way i am guaranteed that word is entirely made up of elements of dict2.

for k in word.keys(): # word has ben converted to key already
    if k not in hand:
        return False
    elif k in hand:
      if word[k] > hand[k]:  
          return False
return True

Answer 1

You only want to return true after all the checks, so stick it after the loop. Here it is as a straight modification of your code:

for k in dict1.keys(): 
    if k in dict2: 
        if dict1[k] != dict2[k]: 
            return False 
return True