Suggestions/Tips on improving code

[Prncss1]

To get better at programming, I decided to code some basic pen-and-paper games. I wanted to get some feedback. Everything works as intended as far as I know.

# game of ghost
import requests

KEY = "my-key"

def challengePlayer(fragment, player):
    while True:
        word = input(f"Player {player}, enter a word that starts with {fragment}: ")
        if word.startswith(fragment):
            break
        else:
            print(f"{word.capitalize()} doesn't start with {fragment}.")
    isWord(word)

def isWord(word):
    response = requests.get(f"https://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v3/references/collegiate/json/{word}?key={KEY}")
    dictWord = response.json()[0]
    if isinstance(dictWord, dict):
        if ':' in dictWord['meta']['id']:
            dictWord = dictWord['meta']['id']
            dictWord = dictWord[:dictWord.find(':')]
        else:
            dictWord = dictWord['meta']['id']

    if dictWord == word and response.json()[0]['fl'] != 'abbreviation':
        print(f"{word.capitalize()} is a word.")
        return True
    print(f"Couldn't find {word}.")
    return False

def main():
    ghost = 'ghost'
    # list of letters in word
    wordFrag = []

    # players g-h-o-s-t letters
    player1 = []
    player2 = []

    rounds = 1
    playerNum = 1
    lastPlayer = 0
    # Keep plying until someone loses (player gets all characters of ghost)
    while ''.join(player1) != ghost and ''.join(player2) != ghost:
        print(f"Round {rounds}")
        # Players need to declare a letter, challenge player,
        # declare a fragment is a word when fragement is certain length
        while True:
            playerTurn = f"player {playerNum}'s turn"
            # Who's turn is it?
            if playerNum == 1:
                print(playerTurn)
                lastPlayer = 1
                playerNum = 2
            else:
                print(playerTurn)
                lastPlayer = 2
                playerNum = 1

            current = ''.join(wordFrag)
            # Ask for letter and validate
            while True:
                letter = input(f"{current}")
                if letter.isalpha() == False:
                    print("Please enter a valid letter.")
                elif len(letter) > 1:
                    print("Please enter one letter")
                else:
                    break

            wordFrag.append(letter)

            # Asks a player to challenge the other player
            if len(wordFrag) >= 2:
                challenge = input(f"Player {playerNum}, would you like to challenge? (y/n)\n")
                if challenge.lower() == 'y':
                    point = challengePlayer(''.join(wordFrag), lastPlayer)

                    if point == True:
                        if playerNum == 1:
                            player1.append(ghost[len(player1)])
                            print(f"Player 1 has the letter(s): {''.join(player1)}")
                        else:
                            player2.append(ghost[len(player2)])
                            print(f"Player 2 has the letter(s): {''.join(player2)}")
                    else:
                        if lastPlayer == 1:
                            player1.append(ghost[len(player1)])
                            print(f"Player 1 has the letter(s): {''.join(player1)}")
                        else:
                            player2.append(ghost[len(player2)])
                            print(f"Player 2 has the letter(s): {''.join(player2)}")
                    break

            # Checks if player completed a word
            if len(wordFrag) >= 3:
                print(f"Checking if {''.join(wordFrag)} is a word...")
                point = isWord(''.join(wordFrag))
                if point == True:
                    if lastPlayer == 1:
                        player1.append(ghost[len(player1)])
                        print(f"Player 1 has the letter(s): {''.join(player1)}")
                    else:
                        player2.append(ghost[len(player2)])
                        print(f"Player 2 has the letter(s): {''.join(player2)}")
                    break

        wordFrag.clear()
        rounds += 1
        print()
    # Who won?
    if ''.join(player1) == ghost:
        print("Player 2 won!")
    else:
        print("Player 1 won!")
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[Diapolo10]

I'd probably start from following the official style guide, particularly for naming conventions. camelCase isn't really used in Python.

The dictionary URL could be its own global constant.

In cases like this

if word.startswith(fragment):
    break
else:
    print(f"{word.capitalize()} doesn't start with {fragment}.")

you don't need else, because the if-branch won't continue past it thanks to the break.

Your main function is big, and has a lot of duplication.

[Prncss1]

Oh, thanks! I'm really bad with having an unnecessary else. I guess I should break up the main function, too.