Question

getting this error on the hangman problem when I use this
wordlist = load_words()
word = choose_word(wordlist)

remLetters = string.lowercase
remGuesses = 8 #starting number of guesses

#makes a blank with the length of the word
blankWord = ''
for i in range(0,len(word)):
blankWord = blankWord + '_'

I get this error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Toly/Downloads/ps2 6/ps2_hangman.py", line 55, in for i in range(0,len(word)): TypeError: object of type 'instancemethod' has no len()

Answer 1

What does the choose_word(wordlist) return?

Answer 2

look at my earlier code before the block I posted:

import random
import string

WORDLIST_FILENAME = "words.txt"

def load_words():
"""
Returns a list of valid words. Words are strings of lowercase letters.

Depending on the size of the word list, this function may
take a while to finish.
"""
print "Loading word list from file..."
# inFile: file
inFile = open(WORDLIST_FILENAME, 'r', 0)
# line: string
line = inFile.readline()
# wordlist: list of strings
wordlist = string.split(line)
print " ", len(wordlist), "words loaded."
return wordlist

def choose_word(wordlist):
"""
wordlist (list): list of words (strings)

Returns a word from wordlist at random
"""
return random.choice(wordlist)

Answer 3

Apparently what random.choice returns is not something you can use within len()

try printing out the "word" variable before passing it to len()