hangman game made on 2018-02-26 at DPL

hangman.py

from __future__ import print_function
try:
    input = raw_input
except NameError:
    pass

def replace_at(the_word, pos, letter):
    """
    produce a new string, just like <the_word>,
    except the letter at <pos> has been
    changed to <letter>
    """
    return (
        the_word[:pos] + # everything up to pos
        letter +
        the_word[pos + 1:] # everything after pos
    )
"""
Welcome to hangman!
You have 6 wrong guesses left.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
your guess: e
Correct!
e _ e _ _ _ _ _
your guess: z
uh oh...
You have 5 wrong guesses left.
e _ e _ _ _ _ _
your guess:
"""

print('Welcome to hangman!')
word = 'elephant'
word_so_far = '________'
wrong_guesses = 6

while word != word_so_far:
    print('You have', wrong_guesses, 'wrong guesses left')
    # print out as many _s as there are letters in
    # our word.
    for letter in word_so_far:
        print(letter, end=' ')
    print() # just put the newline

    # please print out 'your guess: ' and then
    # collect some input from the user. store the
    # input in the variable 'guess'
    guess = input('your guess: ')

    if guess == '':
        print('please make a guess')
    elif guess in word:
        print('Correct!')
        # every location 'e' appears in word, we need to
        # reveal it in word_so_far
        for pos in range(len(word)):
            if word[pos] == guess:
                word_so_far = replace_at(word_so_far, pos, guess)
    else:
        print('uh oh...')
        # subtract one from wrong_guesses
        wrong_guesses -= 1
        if wrong_guesses == 0:
            print("you're out of guesses!")
            # now, get OUT OF THE LOOP
            break

if word == word_so_far:
    print ('nice work!')
else:
    print ('the word was', word)