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Start your free trialAbdullah Jassim
4,551 PointsMy code isnt executing for some reason
import random
words = [
'apple',
'banana',
'orange',
'strawberry',
'lime'
'grapefruit',
'lemon',
'kumquat'
'blueberry',
'melon'
]
while True:
start = input("Press enter/return to start, or return Q to quit")
if start.lower == 'q':
break
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses = []
good_guesses = []
while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(secret_word):
for letter in secret_word:
if letter in good_guesses:
print(letter, end='')
else:
print('_', end='')
print('')
print('Strikes: {}/7'.format(len((bad_guesses)))
print('')
guess = input("Guess a letter").lower()
if len(guess) != 1:
print("You can only guess one letter")
continue
elif guess in good_guesses or guess in bad_guesses:
print("You have already guessed that letter!")
continue
elif not guess.isalpha():
print("You can only guess letters:")
continue
if guess in secret_word:
good_guesses.append(guess)
if len(good_gusses) == len(list(secret_word)):
print("You win! The word was {}".format(secret_word))
break
else:
bad_guesses.append(guess)
else:
print("You didnt guess it. My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,248 PointsI see a few issues:
- you have commas missing on lines 8 and 11
- on line 33, you have an extra open parenthesis after "len"
- on line 50 you wrote "good_gusses" (missing an "e")
Also, you may need to revise your win detection strategy. Comparing the number of guesses to the number of letters in the word will only work for words having only unique letters. Otherwise, you can guess all the letters and the program will not recognize the win.
turaboy holmirzaev
19,198 Pointsstart.lower() -> lower() with paranthesis