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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Letter Game Refinement

Caleb Pitts
Caleb Pitts
967 Points

Letter game not working. Indentation wrong?

My letter game is not working and the console keeps telling me I indented wrong on line 37. Anything you notice I am doing incorrectly?

import random import os import sys

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

def clear(): if os.name == 'nt': os.system('cls') else: os.system('clear')

def draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word): clear()

print('Strikes: {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses))) print('')

for letter in bad_guesses: print(letter, end=' ') print('\n\n')

for letter in secret_word: if letter in good_guesses: print(letter, end='') else: print('_', end ='') print('')

def get_guess(bad_guesses, good_guesses): while True: guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()

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

def play(done): clear() secret_word = random.choice(words) bad_guesses = [] good_guesses = []

while True: draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word) guess = get_guess(bad_guesses, good_guesses)

if guess in secret_word:
  good_guesses.append(guess)
  found = True
  for letter in secret_word:
    if letter not in good_guesses:
      found = False
    if found:
      print("you win!")
      print("The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
      done = True

  else:
    bad_guesses.append(guess)
    if len(bad_guesses) == 7:
      draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word)
      print("You lost!")
      print("The secret word was {}".format(secret_word))
      done = True

  if done:
    play_again = input("Play again? Y/N ").lower()
    if play_again != 'n':
      return play(done = False)
    else:
      sys.exit()

def welcome(): start = input("Press enter/return to start or Q to quit ").lower() if start == 'q': print("Bye!") sys.exit() else: return True

print('Welcome to Letter Guess!')

done = False

while True: clear() welcome() play(done)

Caleb Pitts
Caleb Pitts
967 Points

Sorry about the format. I pasted the text in and it formatted my code into this forum wierdly.

1 Answer

Peter Lodri
Peter Lodri
6,757 Points

Without proper code format it's really hard to tell. Markdown guide Try to post it again with ```python. (3 backticks + language).