program ignoring if statement, and printing True when False

Question

I am writing a simple program for a homework problem and It seems to be skipping my if statement. I have looked at other questions posed, and the problems there do not seem to b

Answer 1

The other answers explain the error in the code well, but you can simplify your code a bit like this:

def isWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    for i in lettersGuessed or ['_']: # uses ['_'] when lettersGuessed = []
        if not i in secretWord:
            return False
    return True

You can do also do this with a generator expression and all():

def isWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    return all([i in secretWord for i in lettersGuessed] or [False])