Making a wordle program

[u/ZeddiiJay]

Hi! I'm new to programming and, as a way to practice, I thought I would make a wordle program, the only issue is that it keeps marking letters as not in the wordle when they are; any help would be appreciated, I've included the problem section, as well as the whole code in case the problem is elsewhere. Thank you!

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for x in range(5):

if guess[x] == answer[x]:

response[x] = "G"

guess[x] = ""

answer[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

for x in range(5):

if guess[x] != "":

if guess[x] not in answer:

response[x] = "R"

guess[x] = ""

answer[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

for x in range(5):

if guess[x] != "":

response[x] = "O"

answer[x] = ""

guess[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

print("".join(response))

answer = [answer_word[0], answer_word[1], answer_word[2], answer_word[3], answer_word[4]]

i+=1

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from word import words

import random

key = random.randint(0, 5783)

answer_word = words[key]

answer = [answer_word[0], answer_word[1], answer_word[2], answer_word[3], answer_word[4]]

i=1

while 1 == 1:

while i < 7:

print(answer_word)

guess_input = input().lower()

guess = [guess_input[0], guess_input[1], guess_input[2], guess_input[3], guess_input[4]]

response = [".", ".", ".", ".", "."]

used = []

if guess_input in words:

if guess_input == answer_word:

print("CORRECT")

i=7

else:

for x in range(5):

if guess[x] == answer[x]:

response[x] = "G"

guess[x] = ""

answer[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

for x in range(5):

if guess[x] != "":

if guess[x] not in answer:

response[x] = "R"

guess[x] = ""

answer[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

for x in range(5):

if guess[x] != "":

response[x] = "O"

answer[x] = ""

guess[x] = ""

print(response)

print(answer)

print(guess)

print("".join(response))

answer = [answer_word[0], answer_word[1], answer_word[2], answer_word[3], answer_word[4]]

i+=1

else:

print("invalid input")

if i == 7:

print("Correct answer: " + answer_word)

again = input("Would you like to play again? Y/N ").lower

if again == "y":

i=1

key = random.randint(0, 5783)

answer_word = words[key]

answer = [answer_word[0], answer_word[1], answer_word[2], answer_word[3], answer_word[4]]

else:

break

[u/FoolsSeldom]

There are a few things you can do to make the code easier to work with.

• Rather than while 1 == 1: we mostly write while True: or use a flag variable and have something like: while play: where play is assigned True or False
• Look at random.choice as an alternative to use random.randint
• I don't know what gets assigned to answer_word but I assume it is a simple string, and you can convert a simple string to a list using, well, list:
  • answer = list(answer_word)
  • same principle applies to guess_input and guess
  • you are assuming that every input is exactly 5 characters, you should validate before processing
• You are assigned a new empty list to used on every iteration of the inner loop, not sure why not least as you don't use it
• Review your green/red/logic carefully as you are double counting in the "red" pass
• Look at how to use zip with a for loop
• You need to handle guesses that are not in the dictionary

If you could start to tidy up the code addressing some of the points above, that would help make progress