import random
import time

#hangman game
__Author__ = "Alex Mullins"

#the words - hints (this is a list of tuples with the word and corresponding hint
theWords = [("kitchen", "some place that you cook in"),
            ("house", "its a place that you live in"),
            ("friend", "it is someone really close to you")]

#seeding and finding out the random word and hint
random.seed(time.time())
x = random.randint(0, len(theWords) - 1)
finalWord = theWords[x][0]
finalHint = theWords[x][1]

#setting up the amount of incorrectGuesses the user has and the word guessed so far
incorrectGuesses = 5
soFar = "-" * len(finalWord)

#main while loop 
while soFar != finalWord and incorrectGuesses > 0:

    print "You have %d many guesses left" % incorrectGuesses
    userGuess = raw_input("Please input ONE character or 'exit' to quit or 'hint' to get the hint: ")
    userGuess = userGuess.lower()

    #checking to see if the user wants to exit or get a hint
    if userGuess == "exit":
        break
    elif userGuess == "hint":
        print finalHint
        userGuess = raw_input("Please input ONE character or 'exit' to quit or 'hint' to get the hint: ")
    
    #checks to see if the user's guess is in the word and if it is update so far  
    if userGuess in finalWord:
        index = finalWord.find(userGuess)
        x = list(soFar)
        x[index] = userGuess
        soFar = "".join(x)
        print "Yes that guess is in the word"

    #the user didnt guess a correct letter and incorrectguess is reduced    
    else:
        print "Im sorry that letter is not in the word."
        incorrectGuesses = incorrectGuesses - 1

if soFar == finalWord:
    print "Congrats you won!"

else:
    print "Thanks for playing"
        

# we store the letters the user has *NOT* yet guessednotGuessed = letters(theWords[x][0])# each time we need to display the string to the user, we replace letters not yet # guessed with asterisks:for l in notGuessed:  soFar = finalWord.replace(i, "-") # don't worry, it makes a copy. finalWord isn't changed

random.seed(time.time())x = random.randint(0, len(theWords) - 1)finalWord = theWords[x][0]finalHint = theWords[x][1]

finalWord, finalHint = random.sample( theWords, 1 )[0]