import random alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ' ex = 'ab c' def getlongest(strng): strng=strng.split(' ') for item in range(len(strng)): strng[item] = len(strng[item]) longest = max(strng) return longest def getshortest(strng): strng=strng.split(' ') for item in range(len(strng)): strng[item] = len(strng[item]) longest = min(strng) return longest def guessword(number): word = '' for item in range(number): word = word+random.choice(alphabet) return word def guess(strng): finstr='' longest = len(strng) for item in range(random.randint(0,longest)): finstr = finstr+random.choice(alphabet) return finstr trys = [] tries = 0 curtry='' while curtry != ex: curtry = guess(ex) tries += 1 print tries raw_input()