hangman.py

# We'll need some random functionality in this game :-)
import random

# The list of words we want the computer to choose from
alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','r','v','w','x','y','z']
words = ['computer', 'science', 'computing', 'school', 'alan', 'turing', 'microsoft', 'macintosh']
rightGuessedLetters = []
wrongGuessedLetters = []


# ------------------------------ FUNCTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------

# An instruction that tells the computer to get a random word from the word list
def getWord():
  return random.randint(0, len(words) - 1)

# An instruction to tell the computer to ask the player for their guess
def getGuess():
  return raw_input("Please enter a guess (just one letter)... ")

# ------------------------------ END FUNCTIONS ------------------------------------------------------

word = getWord()

print "\n #define 2013 - H A N G M A N! \n"
print "Your word to guess is " + str(len(words[word])) + " letters long."

while True:

  # Run the function that asks the player for a guess
  guess = getGuess()

  # If the guess was in our randomly chosen word, yay! 
  if(guess in words[word]):
    rightGuessedLetters.append(guess)

  # If the guess wasn't in our randomly chosen word, damn! 
  else:
    wrongGuessedLetters.append(guess)

    # The player has 7 lives, if they guess incorrectly 7 times, they're dead! 
    if(len(wrongGuessedLetters) == 7):
      print "Dead!"
      print "The word was... " + words[word]
      break