HANGMAN PROJECT - DAY 6

DATE: JUNE 27 / 2020

AUTHOR: MAHIR KAYA

Today, we continue with our new hint function, show_possible_matches(). This function takes only one parameter which is my_word. This is the last function we are going to implement before going to the main program function for the hangman game. So, lets get back to coding.

def show_possible_matches(my_word):

    l5=[]
    l7=[]
#we created two empty lists to use after
    for r in wordlist:

        
        if match_with_gaps(my_word,r)==('TRUE'):
#refers to a function we used before, if you did not check it out yet, you should.
                    l5.append(r)
#we added those words that seem to be a possible match with our secret word.
    l6=l5[:]
#we created a copy in order to iterate over the list.
    for e in l6:
#at this point, I realized that there was another problem with our #code. 
#our code puts the words which include the letters that are not in the #secret word 
#Into the category of possible match if they match_with_gaps()=='TRUE'
#This was a property I did not add to my last function so I decided to #add this to this one.

            for i in letters_guessed:
                if i!= "HINT":
                    if i != "QUIT":
                        if i  not in secret_word:
                            if i in e:
                                l7.append(e)
#This part add the words that has the problem I mentioned above to an empty list to determine which words we should eliminate from our original possible_matches.
                                
    for x in l7:
        if x in l5:
            l5.remove(x)
                                
#We eliminate the incorrect words from our original list.
        
    if l5==[]:
        return('NO MATCHES', l5)
    else:
        return('POSSIBLE MATCHES:', l5,)
# We return our list.