600x

hangman

def hangman(secretWord):
    '''
    secretWord: string, the secret word to guess.

    Starts up an interactive game of Hangman.

    * At the start of the game, let the user know how many 
      letters the secretWord contains.

    * Ask the user to supply one guess (i.e. letter) per round.

    * The user should receive feedback immediately after each guess 
      about whether their guess appears in the computer's word.

    * After each round, you should also display to the user the 
      partially guessed word so far, as well as letters that the 
      user has not yet guessed.

    Follows the other limitations detailed in the problem write-up.
    '''
    # FILL IN YOUR CODE HERE...

    intro = str(len(secretWord))
    lettersGuessed = []
    guess = str
    mistakesMade = 0
    
    print 'Welcome to the game, Hangman!'
    print ('I am thinking of a word that is ') + intro + (' letters long.')
    print ('------------')


    while mistakesMade < 8:
        if isWordGuessed(secretWord,lettersGuessed):
            return ('Congratulations, you won!')
        print ('You have ') + str(8-mistakesMade) + (' guesses left.')
        print ('Available letters:') + getAvailableLetters(lettersGuessed)
        guess = raw_input('Please guess a letter:').lower()
        if guess in secretWord:
            if guess in lettersGuessed:
                print ('Oops! Youve already guessed that letter:') + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
                print ('------------')
            else:
                lettersGuessed.append(guess)
                print ('Good guess:') + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
                print ('------------')
        else:
            if guess in lettersGuessed:
                print ('Oops! Youve already guessed that letter:') + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
                print ('------------')
            else:
                lettersGuessed.append(guess)
                mistakesMade += 1
                print ('Oops! That letter is not in my word:') + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
                print ('------------')


    return ('Sorry, you ran out of guesses. The word was ') + secretWord

Great work pal! Thanks for your effort and time to write this and help people in EdX 600x excercises. I'd like to point out though that you need 2 minor corrections in lines 41 and 49. It has to be 'Oops! You've already guessed that letter:' on both respectively since they do stupid error checks in all prints of the code. Good job and keep it up ;-)