import urllib.request guessed = [] correct = [] # Get a word from the API word = urllib.request.urlopen('http://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word?number=1').read().decode() word = str(word[2:len(word)-2]) print(word) lives = 6 letters = [] for i in word: letters.append(i) while lives != 0: # Take in a guess letter = input('Please enter a letter: ').lower() # Ensure that the letter is valid, and has not already been guessed if len(letter) > 1 or letter.isnumeric(): print('That is not a letter!') continue if letter in guessed: print('You have already guessed \'{0}\'!'.format(letter)) continue # Ensure that the letter is in the word - if not, subtract a life if letter in word: correct.append(letter) # Add the letter to the correct list # If the unordered list of correct letters is the same as the unordered list of letters in the word, the player wins if set(correct) == set(letters): print('You won, with {0} lives to spare! The word was {1}'.format(str(lives), word)) lives = 0 else: lives -= 1 print('Uh oh! \'{0}\' is wrong! You have {1} lives left.'.format(letter, str(lives))) guessed.append(letter)