While statement returns false even if it's true

[Nathan Porter]

Even when the jumble is solved correctly, the program prints the try again message. What am I missing.

 
# Led Zeppelin Word Jumble
# to utilize loops, strings and tupules
# Nathan Porter
# 10/03/2011
 
import random
 
# create a sequence of words to choose from
words = ("Robert Plant", "Jimmy Page", "John Bonham", "John Paul Jones",)
hints = {"Robert" : "The greatest voice in rock",
               "Jimmy" : "Yardbird",
               "Bonham" : "R.I.P.  25 September 1980",
               "Jones" : "triquetra"}
word = random.choice(words)
hint = 'hint'
correct = word
word1 = word
count = 1
 
 
# create a jumbled version of the word
jumble =""
 
while word:
    position = random.randrange(len(word))
    jumble += word[position]
    word = word[:position] + word[(position + 1):]
 
 
score = 0
 
# start the game
print(
"""
           Welcome to Led Zeppelin Word Jumble!
 
   Unscramble the letters to make a word.
   Type 'hint' for help or just press Enter to give up
 
"""
)
print("\nThe jumble is:", jumble)
 
guess = input("Your guess:\n>>>")
guess = guess.lower()
if guess == "":
    print ("You Lose!"),
elif guess == hint:
        if word1 == 'Robert Plant':
            print (hints,("Robert"))
        elif word1 == 'Jimmy Page':
            print (hints,("Jimmy"))
        elif word1 == 'John Bonham':
            print (hints,("Bonham"))
        elif word1 == 'John Paul Jones':
            print (hints,("Jones"))
while (guess != correct) and (guess != ""):
    print ("Lots of people talk but few of them know...")
    guess = input("Your guess:\n>>>")
    guess = guess.lower()
 
    if guess == correct:
        print ("...and it only goes to show, you know!\n"),
 
 
 
print("Thanks for playing") 
 
input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
 

[Rabbit]

Odd coding choices aside, you convert the guess to lower case letters while your words are not.

[Nathan Porter]

I'm teaching myself out of this book and using this forum. I'm having a hard time with it. What choices are odd?

[Nathan Porter]

thank you for your help, I finally got it to work correctly, there was a problem with my elif statements as well

[Rabbit]

Some of the odd choices are that you have 3 variables that store the word choice. At most you need 2. Also, you have a variable count and score that you never use.

Some more advanced stuff is that you can combine the words dictionary with the hint dictionary. You can also use the key to get the hint rather than using that if elif structure.

But none of that stuff actually affects whether or not the code works. Glad you got it fixed, good luck.