Added comments to code

player.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 
+# runs the actuall running of the game
 def play_game(dictionary, previous_guesses, previous_feedback):
     guess = make_new_guess(dictionary, previous_guesses, previous_feedback)
     print("I'll make the guess: ", guess)
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@ def play_game(dictionary, previous_guesses, previous_feedback):
     previous_feedback.append(result)
     return result
 
+# count all the letters in the guesses we have left to get their frequencies
 def count_letters(word):
     letters = {}
     seen = set()
@@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ def count_letters(word):
             seen.add(word[i])
     return (letters)
 
+# find all the possible guesses we can make given the results of all the previous guesses
 def possible(test, dictionary, wrong):
         possible = []   
         for i in range(len(dictionary)):
@@ -34,33 +37,39 @@ def possible(test, dictionary, wrong):
                 possible.append(word)    
         return (possible)
 
+# find the best guess by calculating the value of each word (the more frequently occuring letters in a word the higher value it holds)
+# uses count_letters and value_of_letters to get the value of each word
 def best_guess(words, values):
       word_value = {}
       for i in range(len(words)):
           value = 0
           for x in range(len(words[i])):    
               if words[i][x] in values:
                   value += values[words[i][x]]
-              else: value += 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
+              else: value += 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 #just add some arbitraly large number
           word_value[words[i]] = value
-      word_value = {k:v for k,v in sorted(word_value.items(),key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)}
+      word_value = {k:v for k,v in sorted(word_value.items(),key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)} #find our most valuable word
       return(list(word_value.keys())[0])
 
+# using the frequencies lets find the value of the letters
 def value_of_letters(answers):
     wordscont = ''.join(answers)
     lcount = count_letters(wordscont)
     c = {k:v/len(wordscont) for k,v in sorted(lcount.items(),key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True)}
     return(c)
 
+# the actuall running of the program
 def make_new_guess(words, previous_guesses, previous_feedback):
     letters = value_of_letters(words)
     dictionary = words
+    # start the process
     if len(previous_guesses) == 0:
         wrong = set()
-        firstbest = 'RATED'
+        firstbest = 'RATED' #just the best guess, no need to calculate anything else
         wrong.add(firstbest)
         return firstbest     
     else:
+        # uses the functions we made to solve for the word
         count = len(previous_guesses) - 1
         wrong = set(previous_guesses)
         for i in range(len(previous_guesses)):
@@ -89,13 +98,14 @@ def make_new_guess(words, previous_guesses, previous_feedback):
 previous_guesses = []
 previous_feedback = []
 
+# get the possible guesses we can make
 location = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.path.dirname(__file__)))
 lines = open(os.path.join(location,'words.txt'), 'r')
 dictionary = lines.read().upper().replace('"','').split(',')
 lines.close()
 
 result = play_game(dictionary, previous_guesses,previous_feedback)
-while (result != result.upper()):
+while (result != result.upper() or "." in result):
     result = play_game(dictionary, previous_guesses,previous_feedback)
 
 print("Congrats (You) won!")