ktane/passwords.py

class FoundCondition(Exception):
    pass

class PasswordModule:
    """
    takes in information about passwords and returns the password
    it could be given the information. implementation is pursuant
    Bomb Defusal Manual, Version 1, English, Page 16.
    """
    passwords = [
        'about', 'after', 'again', 'below', 'could',
        'every', 'first', 'found', 'great', 'house',
        'large', 'learn', 'never', 'other', 'place',
        'plant', 'point', 'right', 'small', 'sound',
        'spell', 'still', 'study', 'their', 'there',
        'these', 'thing', 'think', 'three', 'water',
        'where', 'which', 'world', 'would', 'write'
    ]

    def __init__(self, cols):
        """
        cols should contain a five element long array of numbers,
        the first element containing all the possible characters for
        the first position, the second containing all the characters for
        the second position, and so on.
        """

        self.responses = cols
        self.word = None

    def solve(self):
        """
        start solving.
        """
        for word in self.passwords:
            try:
                self._solver(0, word)
            except FoundCondition as e:
                self.word = str(e)
                return self.word

    def _solver(self, index, word):
        """
        internal method. end users need not use.
        """
        responses = self.responses

        if index == 5:
            raise FoundCondition(word)

        for a in responses[index]:
            if a == word[index]:
                self._solver(index + 1, word)

    @classmethod
    def human_helper(cls):
        """
        prints stuff out to console to prompt for information.
        useful for module specific debugging. see usage in the
        default module execution location

        (hint, default module execution location is where __name__ ==
        "__main__"

        """
        responses = []
        for i in range(5):
            response = [*input("{}th letters: ".format(str(i)))]
            responses.append(response)

        obj = cls(responses)
        return obj.solve()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(PasswordModule.human_helper())