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smoothlcg
smoothlcg

Reputation: 37

A SyntaxError:invalid character in identifier. But I don't why it goes wrong

I created a function to compare the characters in my_word and other_word. my_word is a string with '_' characters, other_word is a string with regular English word.

The function returns: boolean, True if all the actual letters of my_word match the corresponding letters of other_word, or the letter is the special symbol '_' , and my_word and other_word are of the same length;False otherwise.

Hint:, the letter (_ ) cannot be one of the letters in the other_word that has already been revealed. So if run match_with_gaps("a_ ple", "apple") ,it returns False.

Here is the code:

`def match_with_gaps(my_word, other_word):
    my_word=my_word.replace(' ','')
    if len(my_word)==len(other_word):
        for char1 in my_word:
            if char1 not in other_word and char1 != '_':
                return False
        my_list=list(my_word)
        other_list=list(other_word)
        for w in my_list:
            if other_list.count(w)>1：
              return False
        return True
    else: return False`

Run the code. It returns SyntaxError:invalid character in identifier

with the line: if other_list.count(w)>1. But I think it is acceptable to use the list.count() function. What's wrong with it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 812

Answers (1)

pakpe
pakpe

Reputation: 5479

I copied your code and cleaned it up. The colon after 1 was not recognized as a colon. You also had a ' character at the start and end of your code. This works fine now:

def match_with_gaps(my_word, other_word):
    my_word=my_word.replace(' ','')
    if len(my_word)==len(other_word):
        for char1 in my_word:
            if char1 not in other_word and char1 != '_':
                return False
        my_list=list(my_word)
        other_list=list(other_word)
        for w in my_list:
            if other_list.count(w)>1:
                return False
        return True
    else:
        return False

Upvotes: 1

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