Simple algorithm for the Hangman text-based game

hangman.py

import random
wList=['Earth','Fire','Wind','Water','Heart','By','your','power','combined','I','am','Captain','Planet']
ind=random.randint(0,10) # generating random integer.In exam the range was 0 to 100.But we will use 0 to 10 here
the_word_beta1=wList[ind]
the_word_beta2=the_word_beta1.lower() # making all the chars lower case for avoiding upper case-lower case match conflict
the_word=the_word_beta2.strip() # taking out all the white spaces before and after the word as there is one word per line in the words.txt. If we don't do it the length of the word will not be correct
print(the_word)
wLen=len(the_word)
u='*'*wLen
counter=0
# 12 attempts
while (counter!=12 and wLen!=0):
    counter=counter+1
    print (u)
    guess_list=list(u)
    g= input("Guess the letter: ")
    for index,letter in enumerate(the_word):
        if letter==g:
            guess_list[index] = letter
            wLen=wLen-1
    u=''.join(guess_list)
    
if wLen==0:    
    print ("Congratulation!!!you have guessed the word")
    print ("The word was",the_word)
    
else:
    print ("sorry you loose")