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from random import randint
from random import shuffle
from math import sqrt
import os
import re
import string

size_board = 4

def create_board(n):
    # board = ['A','F','A','F']mix it
    # seen = [False, False, False, False] make all false 
    board = list(range(n/2))*2
    seen = [False]*n
    shuffle(board) 
    return board, seen

def print_board(board, seen):
    liste =[]
    for i in range(len(seen)):
        if seen[i] == True:
            liste.append(board[i])
        else :
            liste.append("-")
    
    width = int(sqrt(len(board)))
    for i in range(width):
        for j in range(width):
            print liste[i*width+j],
        print ""

def check_input(l):
    width = int(sqrt(l))
    my_check = False
    while True:
        try:
            (x, y) = map(str,(raw_input("Pick a spot has to be two integers like ab").split()))
        
            while not x.isdigit() or int(x) > width-1 or int(x) < 0\
            or not y.isdigit() or int(y) > width-1 or int(y) < 0 or seen[int(x)*width+int(y)] == True:
                (x, y) = map(str,(raw_input("Pick a spot has to be two integers like ab").split()))
            else:
                return int(x)*width+int(y)
                # my_check = True   
        except ValueError:
            print "Value would not work try an other one"
            # my_check = False

board, seen = create_board(size_board)
clear = lambda: os.system('cls')
cntr = 0

print_board(board,seen)

turn = 0
print "Turn %d" % turn

while False in seen:
    
    a = check_input(size_board)
    b = check_input(size_board)
    while a == b:
        b = check_input(size_board)

cntr += 1
    
    seen[(a)] = True
    seen[(b)] = True
    
    
    if cntr >= 1:
        clear()
        cntr = 0
        turn += 1
        my_check = False
    print "Turn %d" % turn
    print_board(board,seen)

if board[int(a)] != board[int(b)]:
        seen[int(a)] = False
        seen[int(b)] = False
    
    
print "GAME-OVER"
print "GAME-OVER"
print "GAME-OVER"
print "It took you %d turns to finish it." % turn 
print "GAME-OVER"
print "GAME-OVER"
print "GAME-OVER"

high_scores = open("hghscr.txt", "r")

name = raw_input("Enter your name for the score board ")

high_scores.close()

the_list = [re.split(' ',line) for line in open('hghscr.txt')]
the_list.append([name,int(turn)]);
# print the_list
the_list.sort(key = lambda tup: int(tup[1]))
f = open('hghscr.txt', 'w')
for item in the_list:
    # item[1] = string.replace(item[1],'\n','')
    f.write("%s %d\n" % (item[0], int(item[1])))
f.close()
with open("hghscr.txt") as f:
    content = f.read()
print content

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