word game, how to give hints

[STUdevil]

i m new to all of the programming and i mlearning python right now.
i m learning right now loops for/while.
i need to write a word guessing game. i think i have figured out the morst but i m stucked with one thing

when someone tips a word and it has the same letters as the hidden word it should show the letters in .lower() but if the letter is also in the right spot i should print it .upper().

example
hidden word flower
guess glhtwu
print _ L _ _w_

#import random
#random_words = ('flower','house','python','mother','church','monster')
hidden_word = 'flower'#random.choice(random_words)
guess =''
guess_count = 0
hint = '_' * len(hidden_word)

print('Welcome to the word guessing game!')
print()

while guess != hidden_word:
   print(f'Your hint is: {hint}')
   guess = input('What is your guess? ').lower()

   # counts the guesses
   guess_count = guess_count + 1

   # this controls the lenghs of the guess
   if len(guess) > len(hidden_word):
     print('Sorry, the guess must have the same number of letters as the secret word.')
   elif len(guess) < len(hidden_word):
     print('Sorry, the guess must have the same number of letters as the secret word.')

#this one one the bottom was a try but doesn t work    
for char in guess:
  if char.lower() == hidden_word.lower():
       print(char.upper() , end='')[/color]


else:
   print('Congratulation! you guess it! ')
   print(f'It took you {guess_count} guesses. ')
   print()

i hope this is better. i chanceled the random out so that the testing is faster.

i have everthing else i only need to fix that.
thx for your help

buran write Oct-07-2024, 11:18 AM:
Please, post your code inline, using BBcode tags, not as attachment

[rwahdan]

Fun project! Share the relevant code snippets directly here.

[deanhystad]

When comparing the guess to the word, take care to not use the same letter in the word twice. If the guess is willow, the hint should not be [ 'w', '_', 'l', 'l', 'o'', 'W']. I would start with a blank hint ['_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_'] and a list of letters from the word ['f', 'l', 'o', 'w', 'e', 'r'].

First look for letters in the correct position. Replace the blank in the hint with the uppercase letter and replace the letter in the word letters list with a blank to prevent reusing the letter.

After checking for letters in the correct position, do the same thing with letters from the guess that are in the word, but in the wrong position. Replace blanks in the hint with the lowercase letter and replace the letter in the word letters list with a blank.

When you are done you'll have a list of blanks, upper and lowercase letters [''w', '_', 'l', '_', 'o', '_']. Ise str.join() to concatenate the list of strings into a single string.

[DPaul]

Fun project.
I assume the length of the guess string is already validated.
My 2 cents would be to do it in one sweep, starting as:

for g,w in zip(guess,word):

The question raised by Deanhystad to check if a letter is analysed twice
is correct or .... depends on the guessing strategiy used:
word = 'flower'
guess = 'rrrrrr'
result = 'rrrrrR'
...next guess...
Paul

[Pedroski55]

I would enter letters one at a time, then guess the whole word when it is more or less obvious.

Maybe you have a hyphenated word?

#hidden_word = 'flower-power'
hidden_word = 'supercalifragilisticexpiallydocious' # even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
hidden_list = [letter for letter in hidden_word]
blanks = ['_' for letter in hidden_word]

while True:
    guess = input('Enter 1 character, capital or otherwise, or the whole word if you think you know it, or quit to quit ... ')
    if guess == 'quit':
        print('Giving up, brain pain ... ')
        break
    elif guess.upper() == hidden_word.upper():
        print('You got it!')
        break
    # if guess is neither correct nor quit, reduce it to 1 letter
    elif len(guess) > 1:
        guess = guess[0]
        print('Your guess was not correct, I will only use the first letter ... ')
    for i in range(len(hidden_list)): # not popular using the integer len(hidden_list) here, for reasons which elude me
        if guess == hidden_list[i]:
            blanks[i] = guess.upper()
    print('So far we have:', ''.join(blanks))
    if ''.join(blanks) == hidden_word.upper():
        print('You got it!')
        break

There is a module string, very useful for basic characters.

import string

print(string.ascii_letters)
print(string.ascii_lowercase)
print(string.ascii_uppercase)
print(string.digits)
print(string.hexdigits)
print(string.whitespace)  # ' \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'
print(string.punctuation)

[STUdevil]

thank you all for the help.
i have to do it saddly a serten way because its for school.
don t worry the teacher said its ok to get help from outside. and ihave maid the main things and only need to fix that withthe big and small letter hints.