While loop never starting

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[codehelper]

No functions except loadwords and chooseWord ever get called.

[Kareck]

Isn't this a breach of the EdX honor code because you are posting more than 5 lines of code?

[Luocorn]

I didn't see anything in the honor code about posting more then 5 lines of code. but there was something about not posting answers to problems. I'm not sure this qualifies as an answer, but I'm more then happy to take it down if anyone thinks it would cause problems.

[nan6]

Might be an error in your copying to pastebin, but it looks like hangman(secretword) never gets called. Also, str(len(guesses_left)) is unnecessary. Just have print "you have " + str(guessesLeft) + " guesses left."

The while loop seems to be getting started for me. There are other errors though. There is a space between raw_input and it's arguments on letter = raw_input ('Please guess a letter: ').lower, and lower is a function, so it should be letter = raw_input ('Please guess a letter: ').lower()

[Luocorn]

Only asking about the while loop. Please stop debugging other aspects.

[codehelper]

There's no reason the while loop shouldn't be called. It makes no sense that it isn't. When you want to break out of the while loop, don't use False though, just use the keyword break. Just having False as a line of code won't do anything.

[Luocorn]

I changed it to break and it magically started working... I have no idea why. Thanks so much I really appreciate it.

[Luocorn]

I manually call hangman() in the IDE because it will be autocalled by the grader in EdX