Question

Can anyone give me a suggestion on how to get the letters into the word in the hangman game in ps2? I am trying to get it to input the letters in the appropriate place in a chain of dashes. For example, for the word 'happy', it would print this '-----'. What I can't get it to do is, like if i guess 'a', input 'a' into the place of the proper dash, i.e. '-a---'. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

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answerWord = 'happy'
dashedWord = '_____'

# Check for the following letterst (just to test)
for letterGuessed in ('a', 'p', 'y', 'h'):

# loop through the entire answer to see if that character is present
for index in range(0,len(answerWord)):

# if we find the letter
if answerWord[index] == letterGuessed:

# this here's the important bit
###################################################
# you can't actually change strings in Python
# so you have to create a new string and build it from the old one
# this builds the new string from:
# the substring from 0 up to but not including the letter we need to insert
# plus the correct letter we need to add in
# plus the substring from the NEXT letter to the end of the string
dashedWord = dashedWord[0:index] + letterGuessed + dashedWord[index+1:len(dashedWord)]

print dashedWord