Question

Hi guys,
i am in the middle of programming the hangman game from the second problem set, and I keep getting "TypeError: expected a character buffer object". How can I fix this? Here is the code that is causing the trouble:
while numGuesses > 0: #or
print '------------'
print 'you have ' + str(numGuesses) + ' guesses left'
avaLetters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
print 'available letters: ' + avaLetters
guess = realWord.find(raw_input('please guess a letter: '))
print avaLetters.index(guess)
print 'letter is: ' + letter
print avaLetters
print '_

Answer 1

Hey there, could you dpaste the entire file, I'll take a quick look but I need to see the other functions that are getting called.

dpaste is here: http://dpaste.com/

It'll let you paste the whole thing up, click to format it for python, then give you a link you can post here. It makes it a lot easier to cut and paste the code to run it 'cause the formatting goes all wonky if you cut from a forum post.

Answer 2

here you go: http://dpaste.com/785922/

Answer 3

guess = realWord.find(raw_input('please guess a letter: '))
on line 68

realWord.find isn't an actual function so guess is getting set to -1 which makes

print avaLetters.index(guess)

fail because it's trying to find the index of -1 instead of a letter

try changing line 68 to just a run of the mill raw input
print avaLetters.find(guess)

That should get you back in business.

Answer 4

ok, thanks. I'll give it a try.