Hangman

Question

hey guys,

i wrote this, but there is a mistake, when you guess a right letter.
it says: 'IndexError: list assignment out of range'

word = ['c','o','c','o','n','u','t']
length = len(word)
hidden = ['_ '*length]
number = int(0)
mistakes = ['-']

print (hidden)

while number<=10:

letter = str(input('Enter a letter: '))

if letter in word:
i = 0
while i < length:

# indexError: list assignment index out of range
if letter is word[i]:
hidden[i] = letter
i = i+1

else:
i = i+1

print(hidden)

else:
number = number+1

print ('This letter is not in here...')
print (mistakes*number)
print (hidden)

print ('You failed!')

can you help me?

Answer 1

To fix your error, you need to write:

hidden = ['_']*length

... as else ['_'*length] will procude a list with an unique item wich is a string of 'length' number of '_' char, instead of a list of 'length' items '_' ;)

Anyway, your code not really still work, as your second mistake is in your conditional statement:

if letter is word[i]:

... wich doesn't work as you expect: the result is True only if the two referenced variable are the same (not only if values stored are equals) ^^
To fix this, replace 'is' keyword with equality operator '==':

if letter == word[i]:

However, you should also correct your code, as it's not detecting when all letters of searched word are found, and your 'while' loop seems to run infinitely (there should be a problem with the 'number' counter, wich is only increased on letter fail -- so the script will run while user don't have make 10 errors :P)

Answer 2

thanks a lot for your help! :)
It works now, except of the last point, but i'll get it, i think... :)

Answer 3

Here is my code if hangman game, may be interesting
https://code.sololearn.com/cu5xv3hUCF90/?ref=app