Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python , 4th Edition

8WRITING THE HANGMAN CODE

This chapter’s game introduces many new concepts, but don’t worry: you’ll experiment with them in the interactive shell before actually programming the game. You’ll learn about methods, which are functions attached to values. You’ll also learn about a new data type called a list. Once you understand these concepts, it will be much easier to program Hangman.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER

• Lists

• The in operator

• Methods

• The split(), lower(), upper(), startswith(), and endswith() string methods

• elif statements

Source Code for Hangman

This chapter’s game is a bit longer than the previous games, but much of it is ...