A hangman game based on the words file in *nix systems.

hangman.py

import random

file = open("/usr/share/dict/words").read().splitlines()
dict = []
for word in file:
    dict.append(word)
guesses = []
incorrect = 10
word = (dict[random.randrange(0,len(dict)-1)]).lower()
blank = list('*' * len(word))

print "##### THE HANGMAN GAME #####"

print "The word is %d letters long" % len(blank)

while True:
    i = 0
    if incorrect == 0:
        print "Sorry, you ran out of tries. The word was '%s'" % word
        exit(0)
    
    print ''.join(blank)  
    guess = raw_input("Please choose a letter: ")
    
    if guess == word: 
        print "Congrats! You win! The word was '%s'" % word   
        exit(0)
    elif len(guess) != len(word) and len(guess) > 1:
        print "You can only choose one letter at a time, or guess the whole word"
        continue
    elif len(guess) == len(word) and guess != word:
        incorrect -= 1
        print "Sorry, but your guess is incorrect. You have %d incorrect tries left" % incorrect
        continue 
    if guess in guesses: 
        print "You have already chosen this letter, please try again."
        print "Letters tried so far: %s" % guesses
        continue
    else: guesses.append(guess)

    if guess in word:
        while i < len(word):
            if word[i] == guess:
                blank[i] = guess
            i += 1

    elif guess not in word: 
        print "Sorry, this letter is not in this word."
        incorrect -= 1
        print "You have %d incorrect tries left." % incorrect

    complete = ''.join(blank)
    
    if complete == word:
        print "Congrats! You win! The word was '%s'" % word   
        exit(0)