A simple Guessing game

guess_game.py

#need to make it so that random words are imported, i couldnt get it to work
#words = requests.get("http://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/dict/words?view=co&content-type=text/plain").content.splitlines()
secret_word = "Levinson"
secret_word = secret_word.lower()
length = int(len(secret_word))
hint = ""
hint_list = list() #strings are immutable
guess = ""
guess_count = 0
guess_limit = len(secret_word)/2
out_of_guesses = False



for i in range (length):
    hint_list.append("_")
    i += 1

i = 0 #because for loop changes i

while guess != secret_word and not(out_of_guesses):
    if guess_count < guess_limit:
        print(hint_list)
        guess = input("Enter guess :")
        guess_count += 1
        hint_list[i] = secret_word[i]
        i += 1
    else:
        out_of_guesses = True
if out_of_guesses:
    print("You loose :(")
else:
    print("You Win!!")