ThinkPython Exercise 9.3

[volcano63]

Edited

After you were provided with a wealth of solutions, here's a my favorite - use the fact that the boolean equivalent of an empty set is False

def avoids(word, forbidden):
    return not set(forbidden).intersection(word.lower())

PS The name of function does not match the result - it returns True when a word is allowed and False when a word should be avoided, that has confused me. allowed_word would have been better name

[sangurocactus]

Thank you all for your help.

@ThiefOfTime - I needed to add a float() before your "complete_count" and it works perfectly. Yes that's what I meant by running on its own. In my original code, I needed to type in cal_perc after the user prompt to calculate%.

@braun - I was using Python 3 originally but had trouble installing the Turtleworld module. I saw on some online forum saying that Turtle was incompatible with Python 3 so I switched to Python 2 but am still having issues. Do you have any tip or can point me to any useful troubleshooting sites? Thank you very much.

[buran]

@braun - I was using Python 3 originally but had trouble installing the Turtleworld module. I saw on some online forum saying that Turtle was incompatible with Python 3 so I switched to Python 2 but am still having issues.

IMHO using packages/frameworks like Turtle in education is non-sense.
Given that because of this you had to switch python2 only proves me right. Just find another tutoring material and work on python3 (my understanding is Turtle is not requirement imposed on you by teacher/school)

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Based on this:
https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/
Second edition is targeted at python3

This does not change my principle opinion on swampy/Turtle... i.e. packages written by the author for the single purpose to teach using them... It only confuses...

[sangurocactus]

@braun - thanks for the advice. I will skip the chapter on using Turtle. It seems nonsensical that I am spending more time installing a module than learning the language.