answer="word" lanswer=len(answer) guess=raw_input("Enter your guess: ") if guess != answer: message="Wrong guess - " lguess=len(guess) if lguess < lanswer: message=message+guess+" is "+str(lanswer-lguess)+" letters too short" elif lguess > lanswer: message=message+guess+" is "+str(lguess-lanswer)+" letters too long" else: message=message+"but "+guess+" has the correct number of letters" print "%s" % message else: print "You guessed correctly! The answer is \"%s\"" % answer