CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python-3.x
Chris W
Chris W

Reputation: 3

Program won't print complete words just single letters

I'm using Python and am trying to make a small game for a college assignment. I am trying to print a randomly selected word from a few external text files (with harder words in each one) and have it displayed for 2 seconds, the word then disappears and the user has to spell it. At the moment my program just displays a random letter from the text file and no whole words.

print ("""Welcome to the Spelling Game
What difficulty do you want to play?
Easy, Medium or Hard?""")
strDifficulty = input().upper

if strDifficulty is ("EASY"):
    with open ('EASY.txt', 'r') as f:
        (chosen) = f.readlines()

if strDifficulty is ("MEDIUM"):
    with open ('MEDIUM.txt', 'r') as f:
        (chosen) = f.readlines()

if strDifficulty is ("HARD"):
    with open ('HARD.txt', 'r') as f:
        (chosen) = f.readlines()

import random
x = ('chosen')
print (random.choice (x))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (2)

Farzan Hajian
Farzan Hajian

Reputation: 2019

I have made some modifications to your code.

print ("""Welcome to the Spelling Game
What difficulty do you want to play?
Easy, Medium or Hard?""")
strDifficulty = input().upper()

if strDifficulty=="EASY":
    with open ('EASY.txt', 'r') as f:
        chosen = f.readlines()

if strDifficulty=="MEDIUM":
    with open ('MEDIUM.txt', 'r') as f:
        chosen = f.readlines()

if strDifficulty=="HARD":
    with open ('HARD.txt', 'r') as f:
        chosen = f.readlines()

import random
print (random.choice (chosen))

Upvotes: 0

akaIDIOT
akaIDIOT

Reputation: 9231

There's multiple issues with your code why it would print out a single character:

strDifficulty = input().upper does not uppercase input from the command line. It will read something you type, which is a string (str in python) and assign the method upper of that string to strDifficulty. What you're likely looking for is strDifficulty = input().upper() (the extra parentheses will call the method upper, returning an uppercased version of what is read from standard in.

x = ('chosen') is assigning the string 'chosen' to x, not the value of the variable chosen. You might have meant x = chosen, assigning the value of chosen to x.

print (random.choice(x)) isn't far off, but will choose a random element from x. As x is always the string 'chosen', you'll likely get one of those letters. You could simply remove the line x = ('chosen') and call print(random.choice(chosen)).

There's plenty more to be said about your piece of code, but let's start here :)

Upvotes: 2

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