Question

Python-
I'm trying to create a word guessing game where you guess the letters. I can't figure out how to get the hidden word to print out with previously guessed letters correctly. Here is my code:

Answer 1

word= w.randomWord()

def guessLetters():
"""challenges you to guess the letters of a word,
the computer will choos the word at random"""


length=(len(word))
mask= '-'*len(word)

range(0,length)



print(mask)

guess= input("type a letter to guess: ")



if guess in word:
print('Correct! try to guess the next letter')

correct= word.find(guess)

print(mask.replace('-',guess,correct))
mask=(mask.replace('-',guess,correct))


else:
print('WRONG!!! try again')
print(mask)

Answer 2

mask.replace('-',guess,correct) will replace the first correct '-'s with guess. Not what you want.

Remember that a string is just a list of characters. It can be iterated over just like a list, and the individual letters worked with by index ie: mask[ length ]