After much work, it is time to ship my project! Updated demo at hangman.epin.to.
 
This project has taught me a lot about making working projects in Python. I only started learning Python at the beginning of this year, and this is the largest coding project that I have completed so far. It may not seem like a lot, but I put many hours into this code. Much of that time was fun, spent coding the main flow of the code. But eventually, the last few hours of this project went into debugging, trying to catch edge cases, and improved user messaging.
 
So what have I worked on since my last devlog? Mostly implementing a way to disable the counter to play just for fun with infinite guesses. It is accessed by putting an exclamation mark before the mode input (like !m for manual or !r for random). Because no counter is going up, no hangman is displayed.
 
I also changed some player messaging to make things clearer. When a correct letter is guessed, the 1-based location(s) in the word is printed rather than the 0-based indexes that Python uses for its lists.
 
Finally, ‘!’ by itself is rejected as a guess. If it is input, the user will get a message saying that ‘!’ alone is not an acceptable input.