#🔒 My remove_piece function is not working correctly (this time i dont know the solution)

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hearty jetty
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the add_piece function works perfectly, but remove_piece acting up

potent quest
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dunno what you mean by "acting up", but I wonder if you intended to put a "return" inside your for loop

hearty jetty
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yes i did intend for that

potent quest
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🤷

hearty jetty
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My remove_piece function is not working correctly (this time i dont know the solution)

true knoll
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Did you share the remove piece code ?

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I can only see add piece

hearty jetty
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oh dear

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sorry about that let me send that

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def remove_piece(board: list[str], piece: str, column_index: int) -> bool:
    for x in range(6, -1, -1):
        if board[column_index - 1][x] == piece:
            board[column_index - 1] = board[column_index - 1].replace(piece, "-", 1)
            print(x)
            display_board(board)
            return True
    return False```
potent quest
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I know that "acting up" means "not working as intended". What I don't know is: how did you intend it to work, and how does its actual behavior differ from that?

hearty jetty
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it should remove the piece starting from the bottom

potent quest
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presumably it's not displaying what you expected it to. But you've not told us what you expected it to display.

hearty jetty
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like if i input r1

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it will remove the piece on the first row

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then if i type r1 again

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it will remove the piece in the next row above that

true knoll
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What does the x in the loop represent you seem to have 8 x 8 grid ?

hearty jetty
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i think position in the column

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each column has 8 position for a piece to fill

true knoll
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Isn't 6 to -1 only 7 values tho

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6

hearty jetty
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yea but my string that stores it

board = ['--------', '--------', '--------', '--------', '--------', '--------', '--------', '--------']```

starts at 0, finishes at 7
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like index 0 for the first item would be the first cell

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index 7 for the first item would be the eight cell

true knoll
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Yeah but you only have 6 in the loop should it be 7 ?

hearty jetty
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hmm leme change that

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na didnt fix anything

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its still weird

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there is some really weird indexing thats going on that is messing it up

true knoll
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Okay so when i say a1 it should append add X to row 1 (not 0 but 1) and right ?

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When i say r1 it should remove all x from row 1 ?

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Or just the first it finds i guess

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And what if there are no x in row 1 ?

hearty jetty
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starting from the bottom

true knoll
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Brb

hearty jetty
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fixed it via string slicing.

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!close

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