Mensanator, Thanks for your help. That should get me along. I appreciate your time.
Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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.") > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
