Does anyone have a shorter version of this hangman game ?

# Python 3.7.4

# importing required modules for later

import random

import time

# main is at the bottom, it calls the two functions choose_word and guessing

def choose_word(): # selects a random word from the text file

with open('word_list.txt', 'r') as wordlist: # gets the the text file

wl = wordlist.readlines() # puts the words in the file into a list

return random.choice(wl) # returning the random word as the output of the function

def guessing(word): # the actual game

# defining lists and variables

guesses = 7 # starting number of guesses

word_letters = list(word) # puts the letters in the word into a list

blanks = '*'*len(word) # makes the * string, same length as word

blanks_list = list(blanks) # makes blank string into a list

new_blanks_list = list(blanks) # making a working blanks list so it can be checked against the blanks list

guess_list = [] # creating empty list for guesses

letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' # defining letters to check for numbers and letters later

print (' ',' '.join(blanks_list),' Please guess a letter: ') # printing the blanks and start statement

# loop for guess countdown, if it gets to 0 this function ends and goes back to the main function

while guesses > 0:

guess = str(input('> ')) # user input

guess = guess.lower() # dealing with caps

# error case loop

if len(guess) > 1: # checking for more than one letter entered

print ('Enter one letter at a time.')

elif not guess in letters: # checking for symbols and numbers

print('No symbols or numbers')

elif guess == '': # checking for empty entrys

print ('Enter a letter.')

elif guess in guess_list: # checking for duplication

print ('You have already guessed:', ' '.join(str(x) for x in guess_list)) # printing 'You have already guessed:' followed by the list of previous guesses seperated by spaces.

else:

guess_list.append(guess) # adding the guess to the guess lists

# loop to check guess against every letter in the word

i = 0

while i < len(word):

if guess == word[i]: # if to catch a match

new_blanks_list[i] = word_letters[i] # adding a correct guess to the new blanks list in the right place

i = i+1

# if for wrong guesses

if new_blanks_list == blanks_list: # just checking for no insertion of a letter into the new blanks list

print ('You guessed wrong')

guesses = guesses - 1 # removing a guess on wrong guess

print ('You have', guesses,'guesses left')

if guesses > 0: # if you have more guesses it prints the below line before sending you to the start of the while guesses loop

print (' ',' '.join(blanks_list)) # printing the current blanks list with spaces between each letter or *

print ('Please enter your next guess: ')

# if for correct guesses

elif word_letters != blanks_list: # catch all

blanks_list = new_blanks_list[:] # making blanks_list a copy of new_blanks, adding the new correct letter to blanks_list

print (' ',' '.join(blanks_list)) # printing the blanks list with a space between each letter

# if for winning

if word_letters == blanks_list: # checking is the last correct letter has been entred

print (' Congratulations you win')

time.sleep (1) # time to read the message

#os._exit (0) # ending the script

return ('win')

# else for correct guess but not win it prints the below line before sending you to the start of the while guesses loop

else: print ('Please enter your next guess: ')

def main():

# intro para

print('',

'Hi JHub ',

'Modual 3 assesment: Hangman but without the actual hangman, which made me sad. ',

'You have 7 lives, to guess a random word from the list in the accompaning word_list.txt file.',

'You are able to guess one letter at a time, with the program either taking a "life" from them if it is an incorrect guess.',

'If correct it will show that the letter is correct and where it appears in the word (i.e. ***a**a*).',

'The game ends when you run out of lives or if you have filled in all the letters of the word.',

sep=' ')

word = choose_word() # setting word as the output from the choose_word function

word = str(word).strip(' ') # removing from the word as in the text file the words are seperated with a return

#print(word) # just so I can cheat when testing

if guessing(word) == 'win': # if the output of calling the hangman function with the random word is "win"

SystemExit # ending the script

else: # for the case of losing

print (' You lose ')

print ('The word was:', word) # giving away the correct answer

time.sleep (1) # time to read the message

SystemExit # ending the script