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

Posted by Rastko Jovic
Rastko Jovic
14,883 Points

When first letter is uppercase it doesn't get inserted into REVEALED?

while True:
            choice = input("What letter are you looking for?>>  ")
            if choice.isalpha() and len(choice) == 1 and choice not in good_guesses + bad_guesses:
                break
            else:
                print("Choose another letter")

        # Check if CHOICE in WORD
        if choice in word:
            #Find all occurrences of choice and put it in revealed
            for position in range(0, len(word)):
                if word[position].lower() == choice:
                    revealed[position] = choice
            # Put CHOICE in GOOD_GUESSES
            good_guesses.append(choice)
        else:
            # Put CHOICE in BAD_GUESSES
            bad_guesses.append(choice)

        print(revealed)
        if '-' not in revealed:
            print("YOU WON!")
            return
    else:
        print("Game over, the correct word was: {}".format(word))

For some reason when i try to match the lowercase version of the letter in WORD to the CHOICE it does match it but doesn't insert it into revealed?

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

You're only checking for the lowercase version of the letter from the word, not the choice or anywhere else.

Unless you want to have to convert everything to lowercase when comparing or checking if something exists in an array, I'd suggest converting choice to lowercase as soon as you get it from input, and converting word to lower case before you check it at all:

word = "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".lower()
choice = input("What letter are you looking for?>>  ").lower()