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Start your free trialSeun Akinyosoye
6,875 PointsCouldnt get the code to work what am I doing wrong
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_guessess, 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))
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)
4 Answers
Josh Keenan
20,315 PointsHere's your error, typo:
def draw(bad_guesses, good_guessess, secret_word): # <-- should be good_guesses
Josh Keenan
20,315 PointsWhat error message do you see? Can you include it?
Seun Akinyosoye
6,875 PointsTraceback (most recent call last):
File "letter_game3.py", line 113, in <module>
play(done)
File "letter_game3.py", line 67, in play
draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word)
File "letter_game3.py", line 37, in draw
if letter in good_guesses:
NameError: name 'good_guesses' is not defined
Seun Akinyosoye
6,875 Pointsthanks a lot
Josh Keenan
20,315 PointsHappy to help, feel free to hit that best answer button, it helps :P