Chad Everett wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I am back. Trying to expand on a program that was given in the book I am
> studying.
>
> No I am not a high school or college student. Doing this on my own. and
> having way to much trouble
>
> I am trying to add a hint section to a word jumble program.
>
> I get a traceback error that the word in the jumble is not defined.
> Can anyone help?
You have several errors.
> thanks,
>
> import random
>
> # create a sequence of words to choose from
> WORDS = ("python", "easy")
> # pick one word randomly from the sequence
> word = random.choice(WORDS)
> # create a variable to use later to see if the guess is correct
> correct = word
> # create variable to use for hint if needed
You didn't create a variable here. Something like
hint = "hint"
And this is the core of your problems. You are confusing a
variable name with the value assigned to it.
> # create a jumbled version of the word
> jumble =""
> while word:
> position = random.randrange(len(word))
> jumble += word[position]
> word = word[:position] + word[(position + 1):]
>
> # start the game
> print \
> """
> Welcome to Word Jumble!
>
> Unscramble the letters to make a word.
> (Press the enter key at the prompt to quit.)
> """
> print "The jumble is:", jumble
> print "If you need a hint type 'hint' and Hit enter."
Here you have specifically told the user that the hint word is "hint".
>
> guess = raw_input("\nYour guess: ")
> guess = guess.lower()
> while (guess != correct) and (guess != "")and (guess != hint): ##not sure
> about this either##
It will fail because you did not define the hint variable.
Note you actually don't need a hint variable (because the
hint word never changes), you could have said
... and (guess != "hint")
whereas (guess != correct) needs to compare against a variable
because correct does change.
> print "Sorry, that's not it."
> guess = raw_input("Your guess: ")
> guess = guess.lower()
>
>
> ###I don"t lnow how to set up this part correct so that when they ask for
> the hint it will give it to them###
>
>
> while word == easy:
Same problem here, easy is a variable (which you haven't defined).
What you meant to say was
while word == "easy":
> if guess == hint:
> print "not hard but"
> guess = raw_input("Your guess: ")
> guess = guess.lower()
>
> while word == python:
Ditto. But this is going to get tedious when your word list gets large.
You should have your words and their hints stored in a dictionary:
hints = {'easy':'not hard but','python':'snake'}
then you need just a single code block that can print the hint
by using the correct word to look up the hint in the dictionary.
if guess == hint:
print hints[correct]
guess = raw_input("Your guess: ")
guess = guess.lower()
>
> if guess == correct:
> print "That's it! You guessed it!\n"
>
> print "Thanks for playing."
>
> raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
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