Hangman

Released: 08-August-2000

Introduction

This is a simple implemention of Hangman in Python. You can use this code as a guideline or just download it and play the game. I've provided a set of German words that you can play with. If you're looking for a set of English words you might find some here. You can also check out this page for other languages. Note that this documention on the game probably fits best for beginners.

Quick Setup

Before running the game be sure to go into the code and replace the path with the one where you've saved the textfile with words.

# Replace with the correct path
self.filepath_words = ".../Hangman/GermanWords/Words.txt"

This could look like following after doing so:

self.filepath_words = "C:/Users/Admin/Documents/Python/Games/Hangman/GermanWords/Words.txt"

When running the code

This version of Hangman works best when running it in the shell. This is due to the command

os.system("cls")

which clears the screen each time the user has confirmed his input. Should you be using a IDE dont be suprised if this command doesn't work.

To run the code go to the hangman directory and use the following command:

$ python Hangman.py

You should now see something like this:

- - - - - -

Used letters:

Lives: 10

Take a guess:

Now you can start guessing :)

Closing words

Coding is a hobby of mine and I don't do it reguarly - so please don't be too harsh on me:)

I've wanted to share this implementation of Hangman because when I was teaching a friend Python the other day I realised that there were only a few examples of it. I personally think this is a fantastic game to get started with so I thought I'd make a (hopefully) well understandable documentation on it.