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Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsMy letter game (with file imports!)
So here's my letter game (created mostly before watching the videos), where you create a file of words separated by new lines and it uses that as the list for the random choice.
Also, if the randomly selected word is less than 7 characters long, you get 7 guesses, otherwise you get 10. Not sure if that's entirely fair, but that's how it goes!
Let me know what you think!
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherNice work!
Try not to use global, though. Scope is important and thinking about it will make you a better programmer.
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsIain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsYeah, I was trying to avoid it, but without using classes or passing the whole words list to every function, I couldn't think of how to do it.
Any suggestions? Is there a way to have a function that is just used to store and return a variable that it holds the value for? I don't know much about
yieldbut maybe it could be used?Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherKenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherDefine it in the global scope?
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsIain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsDo you mean define the variable in the global scope with the list of words from the file, rather than doing that in one of the functions? So... would that just be ripping everything out of the
main()function, and putting that in the global scope?Or did you mean defining a function on the global scope to store and return a variable?
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsIain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsOkay so I moved the code from
main()into awhileloop so I could repeatedly prompt for another word list file if an exception was raised. Thanks for the tip!Removed 'global' and put
main()code in loop | iainsimmons/letter_game