I wanna count how many letters are in the word that i'm trying to guess and each time i guess a word correctly the variable correct_letters will increase by 1, but i don't even know why or how it sometimes increase by a lot of number and other times it doesn't even detect the condition that i put enter image description here

beforehand thank you here is the code

def hangman():
    myword = random_word () # this is just a random word that i chose from a list
    print(myword)
    used_letters= set()
    letters_guessed= ""
    #lookingfor = ""
    count = 4
    #loop til the user fail too many times
    correct_letters= 0

    while count > 0 or len(myword) > correct_letters:
        lookingfor= input(" guess the letter")
        letters_guessed = letters_guessed   lookingfor # put a letter to guess in the word
        used_letters =set(list(lookingfor))
        print(len(myword)) #for know the number of letters that has the word in order to do an if statement with both at the end
        print (correct_letters) #it is to measure how many letters we've guessed correctly
       
       
       
        print(f"you used the letters: {used_letters}")
        for letter in myword: # it evaluates each character in the variable "myword"
            if letter in letters_guessed: # it says that if the current character is equal to the word guessed it prints all the letter in that word
                    print( f"{letter}", end="")
                    correct_letters  = 1
           
            else: #and else if the current character doesnt have the letter guessed it prints a "-" for example : "w-r-d"
                    print(f"-", end="")
        if correct_letters == len(myword):
            print(f"congratulations you guessed the word, it is {''.join(myword)}")
            break

CodePudding user response：

Changes made:-

(1) In every iteration in while `correct_letters initialised to 0`
(2) If user input the letter which is not present in the word `count decreased by 1`
(3) format the answer in readable way..
(4) add the condition. if user can't predict the word. user displayed **Better luck next time your chance are over.. the correct word is:...**

Code:-

def hangman():
    myword = "random" # this is just a random word that i chose from a list
    print(myword)
    used_letters= set()
    letters_guessed= ""
    #lookingfor = ""
    count = 4
    #loop til the user fail too many times
    correct_letters= 0

    while count > 0:
        
        lookingfor = input("\nguess the letter: ")
        
        if lookingfor not in myword:
            count-=1
            
        letters_guessed = letters_guessed   lookingfor # put a letter to guess in the word
        used_letters =set(list(lookingfor))
        print(len(myword)) #for know the number of letters that has the word in order to do an if statement with both at the end
        print(correct_letters) #it is to measure how many letters we've guessed correctly
       
        print(f"you used the letters: {used_letters}")
        correct_letters=0
        for letter in myword: # it evaluates each character in the variable "myword"
            if letter in letters_guessed: # it says that if the current character is equal to the word guessed it prints all the letter in that word
                    print( f"{letter} ", end="")
                    correct_letters =1
            else: #and else if the current character doesnt have the letter guessed it prints a "-" for example : "w-r-d"
                    print(f"- ", end="")
        if correct_letters == len(myword):
            print(f"congratulations you guessed the word, it is {''.join(myword)}")
            break
    if not count:
        print("\nBetter luck next time your chance are over.. the correct word is: " myword)

hangman()

Output:- When user guess correct:-

random
guess the letter: r
6
0
you used the letters: {'r'}
r - - - - - 
guess the letter: a
6
1
you used the letters: {'a'}
r a - - - - 
guess the letter: n
6
2
you used the letters: {'n'}
r a n - - - 
guess the letter: d
6
3
you used the letters: {'d'}
r a n d - - 
guess the letter: o
6
4
you used the letters: {'o'}
r a n d o - 
guess the letter: m
6
5
you used the letters: {'m'}
r a n d o m congratulations you guessed the word, it is random

When user can't get it right

random
guess the letter: q
6
0
you used the letters: {'q'}
- - - - - - 
guess the letter: z
6
0
you used the letters: {'z'}
- - - - - - 
guess the letter: p
6
0
you used the letters: {'p'}
- - - - - - 
guess the letter: t
6
0
you used the letters: {'t'}
- - - - - - 
Better luck next time your chance are over.. the correct word is: random

CodePudding user response：

there you can see im trying to fulfill the condition

im trying to fulfill the condition but it doesnt follows the order of my condition it turns a little crazy, also the number that is above of the "0" the number "8" is the number of letters that the word has and the 0 it suppose that is the count of correct letters that i guessed but it doesnt work as it suppose to be