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Python

Posted by Christopher Gunawan
Christopher Gunawan
10,754 Points

Help with WHILE loop

Hi,

I'm building a Hangman game with Python and I'm a bit stuck with my while loop. Can't seem to figure it out. In this function, I want to create a variable that keeps the number of remaining guesses I have. But for some reason, the remaining guesses never changes even when I increment number of guesses. Please help!

def game_logic(self):
    max_guesses = 7
    number_of_guesses = 0
    remaining_guesses = max_guesses - number_of_guesses
    the_word = random.choice(self.the_word_list)
    hit_letters = []
    missed_letters = []

    while remaining_guesses >= max_guesses:
        guess = raw_input("Please guess a letter: ")

        if guess in the_word:
            print("Great, you chose a correct letter. Pick another letter...")
            hit_letters.append(guess)
            print(self.update_progress(guess, the_word, hit_letters))
        elif guess not in the_word:
            number_of_guesses += 1
            print("Incorrect guess! You have " + str(remaining_guesses) + " guesses remaining. Please try again...")
            missed_letters.append(guess)
            print(self.update_progress(guess, the_word, hit_letters))

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,173 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,173 Points

The "remaining_guesses" is calculated before the loop starts on the 3rd line of "game_logic", and then it is never changed.

When you change the value of "number_of_guesses", you would need to calculate "remaining_guesses" again inside the loop to update it.

Christopher Gunawan
Christopher Gunawan
10,754 Points

Thank you for clearing that up!