Question

The Question

guess_letter:
(str, str) -> str

The first parameter is the unguessed consonants and the second is the difficulty level. Return the consonant to be guessed next by the computer player. If level is EASY, the consonant to guess is randomly selected. If level is HARD, the consonant to guess the first consonant in PRIORITY_CONSONANTS that occurs in the first parameter.

PRIORITY_CONSONANTS = 'tnrslhdcmpfgybwvkqxjz'
EASY = 'E'
HARD = 'H'

Overall this project will create a functional Hangman game, this is one component of it which I have to code myself.

I don’t know how to write this I made a small construct that I wanted to work around. But I honestly don’t understand what to write.

I want that when the difficulty level is hard it to select the first consonant in priority consonants that appears in the parameter unguessed consonants
and when it is easy I want any random consonant to appear

guess_letters(unguessed_consonants, difficulty_level):
if difficulty_level == EASY:
if difficulty_level ==HARD:

Answer 1

import random

EASY = 'E'
HARD = 'H'
PRIORITY_CONSONANTS = 'tnrslhdcmpfgybwvkqxjz'
EASY_CONSONANTS = '' # what should be here?

def guess_letters(unguessed_consonants, difficulty_level):
    if difficulty_level == EASY:
        search_set = EASY_CONSONANTS
    elif difficulty_level == HARD:
        search_set = PRIORITY_CONSONANTS

    for con in unguessed_consonants:
        if con in search_set:
             return con

In response to the comment by Nadia:

kk that worked better except if i input ‘zk’ on hard it will give me z instead of k k comes before z in the PRIORITY_CONSONANTS so the output should be k

In that case, search_set should be iterated over first:

    for con in search_set:
        if con in unguessed_consonants:
             return con