pyWordGuessingGame

# Word Guessing Game

# (This is a simplistic version for assistance/demo purposes. in practice there would be more aspects included in the script)

word = "bubble"
wlist = list(word.lower())          # Make a list from the word for easier processing
displaylist = ["-"] * len(word)     # Make a list of the user's guesses so far (list is mutable, string is not)
tries = 4                           # This is one more than the number of bad guesses allowed

while tries:                        # Loop while still some bad guesses remain
    print(*displaylist, sep="")     # Display the word as guessed so far
    guess = input("Guess a letter in the word: ").lower()
    if guess in wlist:
        print("Correct letter!")
        for x, c in enumerate(wlist):       # Search for all possible instances of this guessed letter
            if c == guess:
                # we use a list for the display word, as characters can be changed directly in the list
                displaylist[x] = guess      # Put the guessed letter into the display list
        if displaylist == wlist:            # Has the whole word been guessed?
            print("You won! The word was", word)               # - yes - congratulate user and ...
            break                           # ... break out of loop
    else:
        tries -= 1                          # Count 1 bad guess
        print("Wrong guess. You have", tries - 1, "wrong attempts left")

else:           # the loop did NOT end with break, therefore the word was not found
    print("You failed to guess the word")