so ill post a few of my failed examples below along with what I came up with as a fix, and then the actual correct code. I feel like im so close to grasping this, but missing some logic. this is for a hangman game.
one of the failed attempts:
import random
word_list = ["aardvark", "baboon", "camel"]
chosen_word = random.choice(word_list)
#Testing code
print(f'Pssst, the solution is {chosen_word}.')
#Create an empty List called display.
#For each letter in the chosen_word, add a "_" to 'display'.
#So if the chosen_word was "apple", display should be ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"] with 5 "_" representing each letter to guess.
display = ["_"] * len(chosen_word)
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
#If the letter at that position matches 'guess' then reveal that letter in the display at that position.
#e.g. If the user guessed "p" and the chosen word was "apple", then display should be ["_", "p", "p", "_", "_"].
for letter in chosen_word:
if guess == letter:
for i in range(len(chosen_word)):
display.insert(i, guess)
print(display)
second:
for letter in chosen_word:
if guess == letter:
for i in range(len(chosen_word[letter])):
display.insert(i, guess)
I ended up just saying screw it and went to this:
display = []
for char in chosen_word:
if guess == letter:
display += letter
else:
display += "_"
correct way of doing it:
import random
word_list = ["aardvark", "baboon", "camel"]
chosen_word = random.choice(word_list)
print(f'Pssst, the solution is {chosen_word}.')
display = []
word_length = len(chosen_word)
for _ in range(word_length):
display += "_"
print(display)
guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()
for position in range(word_length):
letter = chosen_word[position]
if letter == guess:
display[position] = letter
print(display)
so as you can see, i get that I can grab specific parts of a list using indices or slices, but somewhere in my brain my logic is wrong. if you guys have struggled with this before or if you have a good youtube video to help me break it down id be beyond thankful!
Based on the first example:
If you want to help yourself a bit,
enumerateyour for loop. enumerate turns an iterable (like a list, or in this case a string) into an iterable of tuples, with contents being an int representing the index of an item and the item itself:for (i, letter) in enumerate(chosen_word):(Side note, the parenthesis surrounding
(i, letter)are optional. I purposely included them to show that it's a tuple.)iwill be the index of each character, andletterwill be the character itself. You can then do:if letter == guess:And to wrap it up, do list assignment by index. Someone already mentioned why not to use insert in this scenario, so I won't repeat them. The following will instead overwrite the item at
displayindexiwith the guessed character:display[i] = guess