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Python

Posted by Daniel Bishop
Daniel Bishop
1,672 Points

Letter Game Code Not Working But Followed Video

I just went on to the letters game section of Python beginners but everytime I run my script in the console it just keeps printing my strikes {}/7. I have watched this bad frame by frame and looked over my code, I can't see where I have gone wrong?

import random

make a list of works

words = [ 'apple', 'banana', 'orange', 'cocnut', 'strawberry', 'lime', 'grapefruit', 'lemon', 'kumquat', 'blueberry', 'melon', ]

while True: start = input("Press enter/return to start, or penter Q to quit") if start.lower() == 'q': break

# pick a random word
secret_word = random.choice(words)
bad_guesses = []
good_guesses = []

while len(bad_guesses) < 7 and len(good_guesses) != len(list(secret_word)):
    # draw guessed letters, spaces and strikes
    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('')

# take guess
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()

if len(guess) != 1:
    print("You can only guess a single letter!")
    continue
elif guess in bad_guesses or guess in good_guesses:
    print("You've already guesses that letter!")
    continue
elif not guess.isalph():
    print("You can only guess letters!")
    continue

# print out win/lose
if guess in secret_word:
    good_guesses.append(guess)
    if len(good_guesses) == len(list(secret_word)):
        print("You win! The word was {}".format(secret_word))
        break
else:
    bad_guesses.append(guess)

else: print("You dind't guess it! My secret word was {}".format(secret_word))

Daniel Bishop
Daniel Bishop
1,672 Points

Also if anyone knows how I can post a question in the right format, every time some of my code is posted as plain text.

1 Answer

Daniel Bishop
Daniel Bishop
1,672 Points

I figured it out, I was not indented correctly! :)