I am trying to make a Hangman game in Python, and I'm having some trouble with a certain function. Before I work on the game itself, I need to make some functions.
The last one I need to make is a function that will receive a file path to a txt file that contains words separated by space, and it will receive a number that represents the index of a certain word. The function need to return a tuple made of two parts:
The index that the player inputs needs to start from 1 and not 0, and if the index is bigger than the number of words in the file, the function will continue to count in a circular manner (meaning, when it comes back to the first word in the file).
Here is an example of a file with words called words.txt:
'''hangman song most broadly is a song hangman work music work broadly is typically'''
And here is how the function should run:
>>> choose_word(r"c:\words.txt", 3)
(9, 'most')
>>> choose_word(r"c:\words.txt", 15)
(9, 'hangman')
I did most of the things already, but I am having trouble with what to do when the index is higher than the number of words in the file. This is my current code:
def choose_word(file_path, index):
file = open(file_path, 'r')
num = index - 1
list1 = []
list2 = []
word = ''
counter = 0
for x in file.split(" "):
counter += 1
if x not in list1:
list1.append(x)
if counter == num:
word = word + x
list2.append(len(list1))
list2.append(word)
list2 = tuple(list2)
return list2
I would be glad for any help I can get, thank you in advance for taking your time to help me.
You can use modulo (%) to calculate the index, like so:
def choose_word(file_path, index):
file = open(file_path, 'r').read()
num = (index-1) % len(file.split(" "))
list1 = []
list2 = []
word = ''
counter = 0
for x in file.split(" "):
if x not in list1:
list1.append(x)
if counter == num:
word = x
counter += 1
list2.append(len(list1))
list2.append(word)
list2 = tuple(list2)
return list2
See if it works for you!
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