Hangman Problem Set 3

##Sub-Function for recursion
def guessProcess(secretWord,guessCount,lettersGuessed):

    #Base Cases to end recursion
    if isWordGuessed(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
        print 'Congratulations, you won!'
        return 1

    if guessCount == 0:
        print 'Sorry, you ran out of guesses. The word was '+str(secretWord)+'.'
        return 0

    #Start of guess recursion
    print "You have "+str(guessCount)+' guesses left'
    print 'Available Letters: ' + str(getAvailableLetters(lettersGuessed))

    #User guess input, quality check and append to guess list.
    ui = str(raw_input('Please guess a letter: ')).lower()

    if not ui in ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']:
        print 'Not a letter: ' + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
        print '------------'
        return guessProcess(secretWord,guessCount,lettersGuessed)

    if ui in lettersGuessed:
        print "Oops! You've already guessed that letter: " + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
        print '------------'
        return guessProcess(secretWord,guessCount,lettersGuessed)

    lettersGuessed.append(ui)

    #Compare guess with Word and close recursion
    if ui in secretWord:
        print 'Good guess: ' + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
        print '------------'
        return guessProcess(secretWord,guessCount,lettersGuessed)

    else:
        print 'Oops! That letter is not in my word: ' + getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed)
        print '------------'
        guessCount-=1
        return guessProcess(secretWord,guessCount,lettersGuessed)

##Main Function
def hangman(secretWord):

    #Variables
    guessCount=8
    lettersGuessed=[]

    #Presentation
    print 'Welcome to the game Hangman!'
    print 'I am thinking of a word that is ' +str(len(secretWord))+' letters long'
    print '------------'

    #Subfunction Call
    guessProcess(secretWord, guessCount, lettersGuessed)