Why isn't my if statement being called when it is correct?

Question

I am creating a hangman game and when I run my program the if statement doesn't get called even if it is correct. I have changed my .lower to .lower() but the if statement is still not ran.

theWord = list(possibleWords[0])
theWord = (' ').join(theWord)

#graphics
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def graphics():
    graphic = []
    graphic.extend(theWord)

    for i in range(len(theWord)):
        graphic[i] = ("_")

    graphic = (' ').join(graphic)
    print (graphic)
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#input

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def inputs():
    count = (0)
    while len(theWord) > (count):
        for i in range(len(theWord)):
            print (count)
            guess = input("Guess a letter:").lower()
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#right or wrong
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            if (guess) == theWord[i]:
                graphic[i] = (guess)
                print (graphic)
                count = count + (1) 

inputs()

Answer 1

Change guess to input("Guess a letter:").lower() . lower with no parens is a function and will fail the equivalency check to a string:

somestr = 'HI'.lower

somestr
<built-in method lower of str object at 0x10e662f80>

somestr=='hi'
False

somestr = 'HI'.lower()

somestr=='hi'
True