I am trying to emulate a circumstance where i send information and only get a true or false as a return. So i can check each character and if it is true, that means that character is in the string. I would know there would be a position 0 to some number x. I would receive a true result and eventually only receive false result and then I would know the string has been solved. In my circumstance i would not know the target string.
I am trying to iterate through all characters and see if it matches the string character. if it does, I add the character to a list until the list contains all the characters of the string. but for some reason, this isn’t working.
import stringhi = list()swoll = "dkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvnslei"characters = string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digitsfor ch in characters: print(''.join(hi) + ch) for i in swoll: if i == ch: hi.append(ch) print(''.join(hi)) break else: continueresults:
abcdddededefdefdefgdefhdefidefidefijdefijdefijkdefijkdefijkldefijkldefijklmdefijklndefijklndefijklnodefijklnpdefijklnqdefijklnrdefijklnrdefijklnrsdefijklnrsdefijklnrstdefijklnrsudefijklnrsudefijklnrsuvdefijklnrsuvdefijklnrsuvwdefijklnrsuvxdefijklnrsuvydefijklnrsuvzdefijklnrsuvAdefijklnrsuvBdefijklnrsuvCdefijklnrsuvDdefijklnrsuvEdefijklnrsuvFdefijklnrsuvGdefijklnrsuvHdefijklnrsuvIdefijklnrsuvJdefijklnrsuvKdefijklnrsuvLdefijklnrsuvM`As you can see, it does not match the string
When I tried the code above, I was expecting the string to come out the same as the other string.
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Answer
Based on my understanding of the question, I’ve implemented a function which I believe emulates the interface you are talking to:
spos = 0def in_swoll(ch): global spos if spos == len(swoll) or ch != swoll[spos]: return False spos += 1 return TrueThis will return True and increment the counter into swoll when a character matches, otherwise it will return False.
You can then use this function in a loop which iterates until False is returned for all characters in characters. Inside the loop characters is iterated until a match is found, at which point it is added to hi:
hi = []while True: for ch in characters: if in_swoll(ch): hi.append(ch) print(''.join(hi)) break else: # no matches, we're done breakOutput for your sample data:
ddkdkjdkjfdkjfkdkjfksdkjfksjdkjfksjddkjfksjdfdkjfksjdfkdkjfksjdfksdkjfksjdfksjdkjfksjdfksjddkjfksjdfksjdkdkjfksjdfksjdkfdkjfksjdfksjdkfjdkjfksjdfksjdkfjkdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksddkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkddkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjrdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjredkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreudkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvndkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvnsdkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvnsldkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvnsledkjfksjdfksjdkfjksdjfsjkdfjsjreuvnslei