Hangman game

With this project I've strengthened my knowledge about conditional statements, loops, lists and working with strings. I've also used the random built-in library to choose a random word from a list (could expand it into working with files) and the string library for validation (allowing only letters as input).

I've also learned that string are immutable which means that I couldn't take a character at a certain index out of the string and replace it. Instead I worked with a list of characters which I displayed by using the .join() method.

Used methods

.append() used it to populate the empty list with underscores and to keep track of already guessed letters

random.randint() used it to choose a random word from a list of words to guess

"".join() used to print a list as a string. Can define the separator, for example used ", ".join() to display the already guessed letters

.lower() changed all user inputs to lowercase so it is easier to compare to the guessed word

string.ascii_letters/ascii_lowercase abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ used this to make sure user entered only letters. Worked with ascii_lowercase since I already made everything into lowercase with .lower() (feels logical, semantically correct and probably gives faster results, even though it's not noticeable on a project of such small scale I assume it's good practice).

To do:

• Refactor code, use clean code principles (especially tip 1 from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSDyiEjhp8k and "throw errors as fast as possible")
• Write cleaner comments