[Tutor] I don't understand this code

[ZUXOXUS]

Hey,

thanks for your help!

I couldn't understand because I didn't see that further down in the code, as
Serdar Tumgoren said, the function was called:

secretWord = getRandomWord(words)

without that line I couldn't get it.

Thank you very much, everybody, great explanations.

Alan, I have been checking your tutorial too, great job.



2010/7/13 ZUXOXUS <zuxoxus at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I am a true beginner in programming, and im learning with
> inventwithpython.com.
>
> There's something I dont understand, and i would really appreciate any
> help.
>
> In chapter 9, the one about the Hangman game, I don't get the block of code
> in line 61
>
> 59.  words = 'ant baboon badger bat bear'
> 60.
>
>    1. def getRandomWord(wordList):
>    2.     # This function returns a random string from the passed list of
>    strings.
>    3.     wordIndex = random.randint(0, len(wordList) - 1)
>    4.     return wordList[wordIndex]
>
>
> The thing is, the "passed list of strings" is called "words", not
> "wordList", so I see it shouldn't work.
>
> On the other hand, the variable "wordList" is defined nowhere!
>
> The code is ok, because the program runs ok. So there is somethings that i
> dont get.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
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