Daily Coding Challenge - Battle of Words

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

Hello, I need help because I don’t know how to take into account each word in a for loop.

Your code so far

def battle(our_team, opponent):
    our_team = our_team.split()
    opponent = opponent.split()
    print(our_team)
    for lettre in our_team[0]:
        if lettre.isupper():
            print((ord(lettre.lower())-96)*2)
        else :
            print(ord(lettre.lower())-96)

    print(opponent)
    for lettre in opponent[0]:
        if lettre.isupper():
            print((ord(lettre.lower())-96)*2)
        else :
            print(ord(lettre.lower())-96)


    for mot1, mot2 in zip(our_team, opponent):
        print(mot1, "vs", mot2)

    return our_team, opponent

if __name__ == "__main__":
    battle("hello world", "hello word")
    battle("lorem ipsum", "kitty ipsum")
    battle("hello world", "world hello")
    battle("git checkout", "git switch")
    battle("Cheeseburger with fries", "Cheeseburger with Fries")
    battle("We must never surrender", "Our team must win")

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Challenge Information:

Daily Coding Challenge - Battle of Words
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/daily-coding-challenge/2025-10-12

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As I understand your code, you are printing value of every character in the first word of 2 lists which is not correct. You can use zip or a for loop and a helper function to get the current word’s values and compare them. So you should have a variable to keep track the win count of our_team after every comparison. Something like this:
for mot1, mot2 in zip(our_team, opponent):
my_value = get_word_value(mot1)
opp_value = get_word_value(mot2)
#compare
if mot1 > mot2:
increment win_count
elif …
else …

Hope this helps!