[pygame] Question - Comparing strings

[escapedpolarbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey,
I only recently found out about Python and started looking at it a
week ago. It seems like a brilliant coding language.

 I'm starting by making a small simple "guess the word" (hangman
clone) type game. The game selects a random word from a .txt file
(with the option to either use the standard txt file or enter your
own).

The two problems I have is:
1. When I compare the word the person guesses and the word the program
chose, it treats it as the "wrong word" no matter what.

2. When I try puttin a number on the first line of the file (to be
used in the random number generator so that it cuts the range down to
between 2 and number-of-lines-in-file) I get: "TypeError: cannot
concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects"

I'm completely new at this, and I can't seem to find a sollution in
any of the documentation or tutorial pages...

the code:
import random     # Imports lib for random function
import linecache  # Imports lib for reading one line from a file

def WordSelection():
	WordListFile = raw_input("enter word list file name, or choose the
(d)efault list: ")
	if WordListFile == "default" or "default" or "Default" or "d" or "D":
		WordListFile = "WordList.txt"
	MaxLine = linecache.getline(WordListFile, 1)
	GottenWord = linecache.getline(WordListFile, random.randint(2,
MaxLine))
	return GottenWord

print "Welcome to Guess The Word"
print "v0.1b by: Esc"
word = WordSelection()
print "the word is: ", word
guess = raw_input()
print "the word was", word, "and you guessed", guess

if guess == word:
	print "well done, that was correct."
else:
	print "to bad, that was incorrect."


The .txt file:
5                                                 <- the highest
random number
cheese                                   \
apple                                        } The words that the
program reads
pear                                          } and uses in the game.
nut                                           /

When I remove MaxLine and put in 4 instead it works like a charm.

hope someone can help,
    - esc