I wrote this a few years ago while I was going through the projects on inventwithpython.com and this one interested me beyond just following along. You start in chapter 8 (http:\/\/inventwithpython.com\/invent4thed\/chapter8.html) making a hangman game with ASCII art and a list of words. Chapter 9 (http:\/\/inventwithpython.com\/invent4thed\/chapter9.html) expands it with multiple difficulty settings and word options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The code for those 2 parts are linked but I wanted to take it further. I started thinking that there must be a bunch of text files out there with all English words. I figured there would be a dictionary or Webster\u2019s.txt but I haven\u2019t found one. I found many files with 10\u2019s to 100\u2019s of thousands of words, so I grabbed one and started playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/github.com\/dwyl\/english-words
https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/vhhscougars.org\/johnsearch\/searchindex\/oxford-english-dictionary
http:\/\/www.gwicks.net\/dictionaries.htm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All that had to change was to make the words variable open the file words = list(open(‘words_alpha.txt’)) instead of putting the list directly in the code as a list, or dictionary, depending on which chapter you\u2019re working on. It\u2019s a small change code-wise but it opens up the game to new possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m having problems finding lists of specific words but I\u2019d like to build on chapter 9 and have topics, and maybe hints. The hints could be in the file or be scrapped from search engine results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I continue to work on it here\u2019s the Gitlab https:\/\/gitlab.com\/andrewjwhittle\/hangman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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