Python error: “IndexError: string index out of range”

Question

I\'m currently learning python from a book called \'Python for the absolute beginner (third edition)\'. There is an exercise in the book which outlines code for a hangman ga

Answer 1

This error would happen when the number of guesses (so_far) is less than the length of the word. Did you miss an initialization for the variable so_far somewhere, that sets it to something like

so_far = " " * len(word)

?

Edit:

try something like

print "%d / %d" % (new, so_far)

before the line that throws the error, so you can see exactly what goes wrong. The only thing I can think of is that so_far is in a different scope, and you're not actually using the instance you think.