def read_character(self):
"""Read the current character."""
char = self.guess[self.pos]
if char == ' ': # Change it to blank.
char = 'blank'
ao2.speak('Character %s is %s.' % (
self.pos + 1, # The position of the cursor (plus one for humans).
char # The variable we made earlier.
))
def setup(self, handler = None):
# First let's get us a word.
self.word = choice(self.words).lower() # Make sure it's in lower case.
self.guess = ''.join([' ' for x in xrange(len(self.word))]) # Make a string of spaces the same length as the actual word.
self.guesses = 0 # The total number of guesses.
self.pos = -1 # Our current position in the string so we can use left and right arrows to read what we have. Start at -1 so whatever the first keypress is we'll always start at the beginning.
# Tell the user what they're dealing with. Use print formatters since they provide more flexibility and I hate typing + all the time.
ao2.speak('Welcome to hangman. Your word contains %s %s.' % (
len(self.word), # That's the number of letters.
'letter' if len(self.word) == 1 else 'letters' # one-line if statements are a god send.
))
self.lives = len(self.lives_messages) # Number of lives raiming. Expand the lives messages with inpunity.
self.fails = '' # The list of letters the player guessed and failed.
def read_score(self, event):
"""Speak the scores."""
letters = len(self.guess.replace(' ', '')) # The number of correctly-guessed letters in the guess.
# Let's try a different method of printing loads of variables.
ao2.speak('After {guesses} {guesses_str}, you have guessed {letters} {letters_str} out of {word_length} in the word and have {lives} {lives_str} left.'.format(
guesses = self.guesses,
guesses_str = 'guess' if self.guesses == 1 else 'guesses',
letters = letters,
letters_str = 'letter' if letters == 1 else 'letters',
word_length = len(self.word),
lives = self.lives,
lives_str = 'life' if self.lives == 1 else 'lives'
))
def do_guess(self, handler):
"""Make a guess."""
char = handler.event.unicode
if ' ' not in self.guess: # They already won the game.
return ao2.speak('You already won. Press enter to start another game.')
elif self.lives <= 0:
return ao2.speak('You already lost the game. Press enter to start another.')
if char in self.guess or char in self.fails: # They guessed that letter before.
return ao2.speak('You already guessed %s.' % char)
self.guesses += 1 # Increase the number of guesses by 1.
ao2.speak('Letter %s is %s the word.' % (char, 'in' if char in self.word else 'not in'))
if char in self.word:
res = '' # You can't change the contents of strings.
for position, letter in enumerate(self.word): # The correct way to loop through something when you need your current position as well.
if letter == char: # Give them the correctly guessed letter.
res += char
else: # Don't give them any free letters.
res += self.guess[position]
self.guess = res
if ' ' not in self.guess: # They have guessed all letters correctly.
self.finish() # Finish up.
else:
self.fails += char
self.lives -= 1 # Subtract a life.
ao2.speak(choice(self.lives_messages))
if not self.lives: # They are out of lives.
self.die()
def die(self):
"""They lost all their lives."""
self.guess = self.word
ao2.speak('Hard luck. Go buy a dictionary and try again. The word you were looking for was %s.' % self.word)
def finish(self):
"""Finish up the game. Could play a fanfare or something."""
ao2.speak('Congratulations! You will live to spell another day. Your word was %s.' % self.word)
def read_all(self, handler):
"""Read the whole guess, blanks and all."""
ao2.speak(', '.join(['blank' if x == ' ' else x for x in self.guess]) + '.') # One-liner stops us from making a blank variable, then filling it, and putting a full stop at the end, and loads of other painful things that bore you to death.
