py-100-days/07-hangman/hangman.py

import random

# Step 1
word_list = ["aardvark", "baboon", "camel"]

# Randomly choose a word from the word_list and assign it to a variable
# called chosen_word
# chosen_word = word_list[random.randint(1, len(word_list) - 1)]

chosen_word = random.choice(word_list)
print(chosen_word)

# Create an empty list called display. For each letter in the chosen_word,
# add a "_" to display

display = []
for _ in chosen_word:
    display += "_"
print(display)

# Ask the user to guess a letter and assign their answer to a variable
# called guess. Make guess lowercase

guess = input("Guess a letter: ").lower()

# Loop through each position in the chosen_word, if the letter matches then 
# replace the _ with the letter
for pos in range(len(chosen_word)):
    letter = chosen_word[pos]
    if letter == guess:
        display[pos] = letter
    
# Print display and you should see the letter in the correct position
print(display)