Question

PS2 - Hangman

What do you think of this solution?

http://dpaste.com/776959/

Answer 1

does it work? - nope - how many words are in words.txt?
available is missing a letter
here is another way to remove a character from a string - http://dpaste.com/776965/

Answer 2

Fixed the missing 'w': http://dpaste.com/776970/
Yes it works.
This is the word.txt file.

Answer 3

when i run it, it only loads one word from the file.

Answer 4

That part was given. Students just have to code below ''your code begins here''.

You just need a one random word each time you play Hangman.

Answer 5

when you run it, it works?
well, load_words is not working, you need to fix it before the game will work.
it only loads the first word in the file.

Answer 6

load_works was written by the TA's as it was give with the problem handout. When I run load_words I get 55900 words.

Answer 7

ahh, nevermind - i had the file from the 2008 class

Answer 8

So does the code work? Except the remove character solution (yours is simpler), do you have any comments on sections that could be improved?

Answer 9

the enumerate() function is convenient when you need to iterate over the items and the indices of a sequence - http://dpaste.com/776981/

Answer 10

Where can I use that?

Answer 11

I was looking at format_word() when i thought of that.

Answer 12

i like to use lists because they have lots of useful methods. I might have kept the word as a list of characters and worked with that instead of slices. For some reason, i never think about using slices.

Answer 13

otherwise looks good to me

Answer 14

Using lists instead of slices really seems a great idea. It's way more easy to work with lists than with strings. Thanks for the tip.

Answer 15

i'm thinking though (and remembering) that slices can be very powerful - i need to start remembering to consider them as an option.