Daily Challenge - Character Battle

Python
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First time trying the daily challenges. But it seems like the tests aren’t working for me in this, despite manual runs returning the required results.

For the context of the challenge itself, with my code below:

Given two strings representing your army and an opposing army, each character from your army battles the character at the same position from the opposing army using the following rules:

  • Characters a-z have a strength of 1-26, respectively.

  • Characters A-Z have a strength of 27-52, respectively.

  • Digits 0-9 have a strength of their face value.

  • All other characters have a value of zero.

  • Each character can only fight one battle.

For each battle, the stronger character wins. The army with more victories, wins the war. Return the following values:

  • "Opponent retreated" if your army has more characters than the opposing army.

  • "We retreated" if the opposing army has more characters than yours.

  • "We won" if your army won more battles.

  • "We lost" if the opposing army won more battles.

  • "It was a tie" if both armies won the same number of battles.

Tests

  • Failed:1. battle("Hello", "World") should return "We lost".

  • Failed:2. battle("pizza", "salad") should return "We won".

  • Failed:3. battle("C@T5", "D0G$") should return "We won".

  • Failed:4. battle("kn!ght", "orc") should return "Opponent retreated".

  • Failed:5. battle("PC", "Mac") should return "We retreated".

  • Failed:6. battle("Wizards", "Dragons") should return "It was a tie".

  • Failed:7. battle("Mr. Smith", "Dr. Jones") should return "It was a tie".

def battle(my_army, opposing_army):
    
    # Assigning characters to strength levels in indexes
    strength = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j' ,'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z']

    # Assigning values
    my_army_wins = 0
    opposing_army_wins = 0


    # Split characters for each argument into a list
    my_army_list = []
    for x in my_army:
        my_army_list.append(x)

    opposing_army_list = []
    for x in opposing_army:
        opposing_army_list.append(x)
    

    # Convert characters into numbers
    def convert(list):
        for i in range(len(list)):
            if list[i].isalpha(): 
                list[i] = strength.index(list[i])
            elif list[i].isdigit():
                list[i] = int(list[i])
            else: 
                list[i] = 0 
    convert(my_army_list)
    convert(opposing_army_list)



    # Results for when there are more characters on one side (retreating), then find the results of the battles
    if len(my_army) > len(opposing_army):
        print("Opponent retreated")
    elif len(my_army) < len(opposing_army):
        print("We retreated")
    else:

        # Compare values between both arguments before results
        for i in range(len(my_army_list)):
            if my_army_list[i] > opposing_army_list[i]:
                my_army_wins += 1
            elif my_army_list[i] < opposing_army_list[i]:
                opposing_army_wins += 1
            else:
                continue
        # Continue results of battle
        if my_army_wins > opposing_army_wins:
            print("We won")
        elif my_army_wins < opposing_army_wins:
            print("We lost")
        elif my_army_wins == opposing_army_wins:
            print("It was a tie")
    print(my_army_list)
    print(opposing_army_list)

battle("Mr. Smith", "Dr. Jones")
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What are you returning?

3

AH! Thank you! So stupid xD

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