Text mode hangman game

Hangman.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Hangman game

# Copyright (c) 2009, Wilfred Hughes
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import sys
import random

def print_hangman(x):
    positions = [
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|  /|\\\n\
|  / \\\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|  /|\\\n\
|  /\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|  /|\\\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|  /|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|   |\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|   o\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"/---\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
|\n\
\-----",
"\n\
\n\
\n\
\n\
\n\
\-----",
"\n\
\n\
\n\
\n\
\n\
"]
    print(positions[x])

def print_word(guessed):
    for g in guessed:
        letter = g[0]
        found = g[1]
        if(found):
            sys.stdout.write(letter)
        else:
            sys.stdout.write("_")
    sys.stdout.write("\n\n")

def get_random_word():
    # get random word from dict (grep -v "'s" <british-english | grep
    # '[a-z]\{5\}' > ~/scratch/hangman_dict)
    dict = open("/home/wilfred/scratch/hangman_dict",'rt')
    words = dict.readlines()
    word = words[random.randint(0,len(words))].rstrip().lower()
    dict.close()

    return word

def play_hangman():
    word = get_random_word()
    guessed = [[letter,False] for letter in word]
    lives = 10

    while(True):
        # check alive
        print_hangman(lives)
        if(lives==0):
            print("Game Over!")
            print("The word was: " + word)
            sys.exit()

        # print progress so far
        print_word(guessed)

        # take first non-whitespace character inputted as guess
        guess = input().strip()
        if (len(guess)==0): # nothing typed
            continue # play this round again
        guess = guess[0]

        # see if guess was in the word
        not_in_word = True
        for i in range(len(guessed)):
            letter = guessed[i][0]
            found = guessed[i][1]
            if(letter==guess):
                guessed[i][1] = True
                not_in_word = False
        if(not_in_word):
            lives -= 1

        # check to see if word is done
        all_done = True
        for i in range(len(guessed)):
            if(not guessed[i][1]):
                all_done = False
        if(all_done):
            print(word + "! You win!")
            sys.exit(0)

if(__name__=='__main__'):
    play_hangman()