# Useful competitors mistake?
**URL:** https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 4, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850 "2016-09-04T06:24:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Brigi](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Brigi)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850/1 "2016-09-04T06:24:51Z")
Hi,
YOUR written code hero.attack(enemy) - gives me a mistake. I added my own code and it doesn’t work.
The hero doesn’t attack enemies. Because hero.attack(enemy) is not functioning.
while True:
enemy = hero.findNearestEnemy()
if enemy:
if enemy.type != (“peon”):
hero.attack(enemy)
item = hero.findNearestItem()
if item:
# Gather the item only if the type is NOT equal to “poison”.
if item.type == (“poison”):
hero.pick(item)
```
pass
```
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### Author:  [@Alexbrand](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Alexbrand)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850/2 "2016-09-04T06:30:09Z")
Hi! Do you have sword?
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### Author:  [@Brigi](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Brigi)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850/3 "2016-09-04T07:22:04Z")
I added the sword, thank you!
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### Author:  [@Alexbrand](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Alexbrand)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/useful-competitors-mistake/8850/4 "2016-09-04T16:25:00Z")
You are welcome!) When game says that something doesn’t work, often it means that you didn’t equip thing needed for this.