1 #Author : Gagan Shrestha
   2 #Description : I am trying to recreate the Game that I had created long time back using C++ to win a programming contest
   3 
   4 import random       #need to generate random no.
   5 
   6 #Describing the rules to the players
   7 print """Welcome to this home-made game. I call it "GuessTheWord" !
   8 The game, as its name suggests, is to guess a word. You will see the blanks representing the letters in a word. So, cue no. 1 - You know the no. of letters in the word.
   9 
  10 You need to enter one letter at a time as your guess. If the letter exists in the guess word, the blanks will be replaced for each occurrence of the entered letter.
  11 
  12 Press Ctrl+c to quit the game.
  13 
  14 Now lets start the game !!!"""         
  15 
  16 
  17 print 50*'-'
  18 
  19 #function to display list
  20 def dispList(list):
  21     print "\n"
  22     for i in list:
  23         print i,
  24     print "\n"
  25     
  26 #function to check the presence of character in the string
  27 def ifPresent(char,str):
  28     return str.count(char)
  29         
  30 #function to find the indices of the character in the list
  31 def findIndex(char,str):
  32     i=0
  33     indexList=[]
  34     #print len(str)         for debugging
  35     while i < len(str):
  36         if char==str[i]:
  37             indexList.append(i)
  38         i=i+1
  39     return indexList    
  40 
  41 #function to fill the characters in the list
  42 def fillList(char,indexList,List):
  43     i=0
  44     for i in indexList:
  45         List[i]=char
  46     #print answerList       for debugging           
  47     return List    
  48 
  49 #retrieve list of strings for questions from config file called 'questions.txt'
  50 strings=[]          #this list will hold the words to be guessed from config file
  51 file=open('questions.txt','r')
  52 for string in file.readlines():
  53     strings.append(string.rstrip())
  54 file.close()
  55 
  56 #choose the string for question
  57 random.shuffle(strings)
  58 i=random.randint(0,(len(strings)-1))    
  59 
  60 #variable to control the main loop of game
  61 loop=1
  62 
  63 #variable to check the count of try
  64 count=0
  65 
  66 #need to create list of blanks
  67 repeat=len(strings[i])
  68 fill=0
  69 
  70 #This list is to create a question
  71 question=[]
  72 
  73 #This list is to store the user's guess
  74 answer=[]
  75 
  76 #this list will be used to record the player's guess
  77 while fill < repeat:
  78     #let us fill the answer list with hyphens
  79     question.append(strings[i][fill].lower())
  80     answer.append('-')
  81     fill=fill+1
  82 
  83 #dispList(question)         #for debugging
  84 #display the empty list
  85 print "\n\n"    
  86 dispList(answer)
  87 
  88 print ""
  89 print ""
  90 
  91 #Actual program starts here
  92 while loop==1:
  93 
  94     if (answer == question):
  95         print '\nCongratulations ! You got it !! You took',count,'attempts to get the right answer !!!  \n'
  96         break
  97 
  98     #take the input from player
  99     try:
 100         char=raw_input("\nEnter your guess character: ").lower()
 101         count=count+1
 102         
 103     except(EOFError):
 104         print '\n\nCharacter you entered is not in the answer. Try again !'
 105         continue
 106 
 107     except(KeyboardInterrupt):
 108         print '\n\nYou chose to quit the game ! See you later !!!'
 109         break
 110 
 111     #check if player entered more than one character and display error if yes
 112     if len(char)>1:
 113         print '\nEnter only one character at a time !\n'
 114         dispList(answer)
 115         continue    
 116         
 117     #check if input is present in our answer
 118     elif ifPresent(char,strings[i]):
 119         #print 'Character present'      for debugging
 120 
 121         #since it is present call the function to find the index no. on which the entered character is present    
 122         indexList=findIndex(char,strings[i])
 123 
 124         #print indexList                for debugging
 125 
 126         #filling the character in the answer list wherever it is present based on index we found earlier
 127         answer=fillList(char,indexList,answer)
 128 
 129         #print answer                   for debugging
 130 
 131         #display the answer with input filled in
 132         dispList(answer)    
 133 
 134     #give another chance to player since character entered earlier is not present in our answer                        
 135     else:
 136         print '\nCharacter you entered is not in the answer. Try again !'
 137         dispList(answer)
 138         continue       
 139 
 140 #print 'Out of Loop ! phew !!'          for debugging
 141 
 142 #End of Programme