# 6.00 Problem Set 3
# 
# Hangman
#

# -----------------------------------
# Helper code
# (you don't need to understand this helper code)
from random import randrange
import string

WORDLIST_FILENAME = "words.txt"

def load_words():
    """
    Returns a list of valid words. Words are strings of lowercase letters.
    
    Depending on the size of the word list, this function may
    take a while to finish.
    """
    print "Loading word list from file..."
    # inFile: file
    inFile = open(WORDLIST_FILENAME, 'r', 0)
    # line: string
    line = inFile.readline()
    # wordlist: list of strings
    wordlist = string.split(line)
    print "  ", len(wordlist), "words loaded."
    return wordlist

# end of helper code
# -----------------------------------

# actually load the dictionary of words and point to it with 
# the wordlist variable so that it can be accessed from anywhere
# in the program
wordlist = load_words()

# your code begins here!