A simple commandline hangman game using the words found at www.hangmanwords.com/words

hangman.py

import linecache
import random
import re

line_num = random.randint(1, 60)
line = linecache.getline("words.txt", line_num)
line = line[0:len(line) - 1]

guessed_letters = []
word_progress = []
wrong_guesses = 0

print("Welcome to hangman! Your word is %s letters long." % len(line))

# Setup word_progress
for l in line:
    word_progress.append("_ ")

# Main game loop
while "_ " in word_progress and wrong_guesses < 6:
    # Show past guesses if it's not the first turn
    past_guesses = "Your guesses so far: "
    for letter in guessed_letters:
        past_guesses += letter + ", "
    if len(guessed_letters) > 0:
        a = ""
        print(past_guesses)

    # Get and validate the user's guess
    print("You've used %s/6 chances" % wrong_guesses)
    guess = input("Make a guess: ")[0:1].lower()
    if not re.match("^[a-z]*$", guess):
        print("Only letters are allowed")
        pass
    elif guess in guessed_letters:
        print("You've already guessed that letter")
        pass
    else:
        guessed_letters.append(guess)

    if guess in line:
        occurences = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(guess, line)]
        for index in occurences:
            word_progress[index] = guess + " "
        print("Correct!")
        print(''.join(word_progress))
    else:
        wrong_guesses += 1
        if wrong_guesses < 6:
            print("Try again")
            print(''.join(word_progress))

if wrong_guesses == 6:
    print("You lose, the word was: %s" % line)
else:
    print("Congratulations! You guessed the word!")