i had to adapt an example from one of the books i was reading about python programming ie python for absolute beginner.

When i try to run it both through the python 2.7.3 ide and command prompt, it just sits der blinking the prompt, dosen't show if there is any error and it takes ages and noting happens and it tends to strain my system by running the cpu at 100% and my sytem slows down. I will try to upload the python file if itz possible but below is the source code and am using windows 7 32bits in compaq presario r3000, 1gig ram

# this is a jumble word game where the player makes correct a jumbled word
# the computer picks a random word and jumbles it
# the player have to guess the correct word

import random

# create a sequence of words from which to choose the word to jumble
WORDS = ("abandon", "baseball", "bizare", "thesarus", "bombardment", "buffet", "budgetary", "carte blanche", "cartoon", "murder",
"father", "mother", "mummy", "casually", "daddy", "cockade", "codswallop", "coercive", "codeine", "highlander", "communication",
"come", "love", "gladiator", "merlin", "subject", "formal", "humourous", "sailor", "technial", "written", "singular", "dating",
"comparative", "dictionary", "contemporary", "grammar", "uncountable", "progressive", "dikachi", "loveth", "complicated",
"sentence", "bring", "death", "opinions", "request", "vegetable", "soup", "suggestion", "food", "director", "online", "collocation",
"register", "beard", "beam", "america", "africa", "asia", "australia", "ocean", "europe", "common", "error"

# pick one word at random from the sequence, this is the word that is to be jumbled
word = random.choice(WORDS)

# assigning word to correct cos itz correct that the guess will be compared to to check if it is correct
correct = word

# create an empty jumbled word to initialise it
jumble = ""

# the while continues until word becomes empty
while word:
# the first part of the loop actually generates a random position in word depending on it's length
position = random.randrange(len(word))
#so the letter word[position] is going to be extracted from word and added to jumble
#the next line of the loop creates a new version of string jumble and it becomes it's old self plus word[position]
jumble += word[position]
#the next line in the loop creates a new version of word minus the one letter at the position {position}
word = word[:position] + word[position + 1):]

# starting phase of the game
print\
'''
WELCOME TO WORD JUMBLE
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

You have to unscramble it to make a word
(press the enter key at prompt to quit.)
'''

print"\tThe jumble is: ", jumble

guess = raw_input("\nYour guess? "
guess = guess.lower()
while (guess != correct) and (guess != "":
print" sorry i.e not it. "
guess = raw_input(" Your guess? "
guess = guess.lower()

if guess == correct:
print" \n\tCONGRATS!!! you got it right this time."

print\
'''
THANKS FOR PLAYING
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
GAME WORKED ON BY KACHI BUT NOT THE ORIGINAL OWNER,
ADAPTED FROM PYTHON FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS.
'''

don't mind the jumbled arrangement, am using my phone to post it ie y itz scattered, the running showed no error just dat it just sat der doin noting.

enclose the code in [code] brackets. makes it more readable. or post it to pastebin or ideone.

python relies on indents, you need to indent this for it to make some sense.

@c++_crazy

You had a slight logical error in your first while loop. I fixed it and the game works fine. Here's the correction

---

while word:
    # the first part of the loop actually generates a random position in word depending on it's length
    position = random.randrange(len(word))
    #so the letter word[position] is going to be extracted from word and added to jumble
    #the next line of the loop creates a new version of string jumble and it becomes it's old self plus word[position]
    jumble += word[position]
    #the next line in the loop creates a new version of word minus the one letter at the position {position}
    word = word[:position] + word[(position + 1):]

---

The modified staement is in bold.

gothrones: @c++_crazy

You had a slight logical error in your first while loop. I fixed it and the game works fine. Here's the correction

---

while word:
    # the first part of the loop actually generates a random position in word depending on it's length
    position = random.randrange(len(word))
    #so the letter word[position] is going to be extracted from word and added to jumble
    #the next line of the loop creates a new version of string jumble and it becomes it's old self plus word[position]
    jumble += word[position]
    #the next line in the loop creates a new version of word minus the one letter at the position {position}
    word = word[:position] + word[(position + 1):]

---

The modified staement is in bold.

thanks man and i really appreciate other contributions

I believe random.randrange should return a list so from the line random.randrange(len(word)) try this instead

letters = [word[i] for i in random.randrange(len(word))]
jumble = ''.join(letters)

Am sure you can take it from.
PS: am also posting this from my fone.

^
No! random.randrange(x) doesn't return a list! It returns a random integer y, where 0 ≤ y < x.

gothrones: ^
No! random.randrange(x) doesn't return a list! It returns a random integer y, where 0 ≤ y < x.

Yeah, my bad. Haven't actually used it before so was confusing it with range() because of the name. Sorry guys.