I'm having trouble with a word game I'm trying to make, scrabble.
A part of my code,where it eventually gives the error, is:
def is_valid_word(word, hand, word_list):
"""
Returns True if word is in the word_list and is entirely
composed of letters in the hand. Otherwise, returns False.
Does not mutate hand or word_list.
word: string
hand: dictionary (string -> int)
word_list: list of lowercase strings
"""
hand_copy = hand.copy()
if word not in wordList:
return False
for char in word:
if char not in hand_copy:
return False
else:
hand_copy[char] -= 1
if hand_copy[char] < 0:
return False
return True
def play_hand(hand, words):
"""
Allows the user to play the given hand, as follows:
* The hand is displayed.
* The user may input a word.
* An invalid word is rejected, and a message is displayed asking
the user to choose another word.
* When a valid word is entered, it uses up letters from the hand.
* After every valid word: the score for that word is displayed,
the remaining letters in the hand are displayed, and the user
is asked to input another word.
* The sum of the word scores is displayed when the hand finishes.
* The hand finishes when there are no more unused letters.
The user can also finish playing the hand by inputing a single
period (the string '.') instead of a word.
hand: dictionary (string -> int)
words: list of lowercase strings
"""
n = HAND_SIZE
display_hand(hand)
print "You may enter '.' if you cannot create a word."
word = raw_input("Please enter a word:")
score = 0
totalscore = 0
while not len(hand) == 0 and not word == ".":
print word
if is_valid_word(word, hand, load_words()) == False:
print "That is not a valid word"
word = raw_input("Please enter a word:")
elif is_valid_word(word, hand, load_words()) == True:
score = get_word_score(word, n)
print "You word was worth " + str(score) + " points."
totalscore = totalscore + score
print "Your total score is: " + str(totalscore) + "."
print "Here is your updated hand."
hand = update_hand(hand,word)
display_hand(hand)
if len(hand) != 0:
word = raw_input("Please enter a word:")
print "Your total score is: " + str(totalscore) + "."
return
def play_game(words):
"""
Allow the user to play an arbitrary number of hands.
* Asks the user to input 'n' or 'r' or 'e'.
* If the user inputs 'n', let the user play a new (random) hand.
When done playing the hand, ask the 'n' or 'e' question again.
* If the user inputs 'r', let the user play the last hand again.
* If the user inputs 'e', exit the game.
* If the user inputs anything else, ask them again.
"""
hand = deal_hand(HAND_SIZE)
while True:
cmd = raw_input('Enter n to deal a new hand, r to replay the last hand, or e to end game: ')
if cmd == 'n':
hand = deal_hand(HAND_SIZE)
play_hand(hand, words)
print
elif cmd == 'r':
play_hand(hand, words)
print
elif cmd == 'e':
break
else:
print "Invalid command."
In my opninion this should work. I can start the game, deal a new hand, replay the last hand or end a game. But when I try to make a word from the given letters it gives this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wordgames.py", line 257, in <module>
play_game(words)
File "wordgames.py", line 241, in play_game
play_hand(hand, words)
File "wordgames.py", line 204, in play_hand
if is_valid_word(word, hand, load_words()) == False:
File "wordgames.py", line 163, in is_valid_word
if word not in wordList:
NameError: global name 'wordlist' is not defined
I've been trying a lot, but nothing helps... Please can somebody help me fixing this?
Thanks in advance!
The error is clearly stated at the bottom of the traceback:
File "wordgames.py", line 163, in is_valid_word
if word not in wordList:
NameError: global name 'wordlist' is not defined
ie you don't define wordList - the input variable is called word_list.
Also you should fix the indentation in your question to make it clear where the function definition ends and you return to global scope.
As jonsharpe points out, your traceback is also inconsistent (wordlist instead of wordList)