TypeError: 'int' object is not callable,,, len()

Question

I wrote a program to play hangman---it\'s not finished but it gives me an error for some reason...

import turtle
n=False
y=True
list=()
print (\"welcome to the h         


        

Answer 1

You assigned to a local name len:

len=len(word)

Now len is an integer and shadows the built-in function. You want to use a different name there instead:

length = len(word)
# other code
print "_ " * length

Other tips:

• Use not instead of testing for equality to False:

  while not n:
  

• Ditto for testing for == True; that is what while already does:

  while y: