How to restart a loop if the input is wrong?

Question

I'm new in python. I'm trying to code a basic hangman game, the thing is, when I put on purpuse a wrong answer, my for loop keep making the iteration as if nothing happen, I'd like that each time I mistake, the loop "freeze" o keep in the same letter until I put the correct answer.

This is my code:

word = input("Introduce a word ")

n = len(word)
print("The word has "+ str(n) + " letters")
print("Hint: The first letter is " + word[0])
print("")

for i in word:
    print(i)
    if i == input("Guess the letter: "):
        print("Correct")
    else:
        print("Wrong !")

You right, indeed, I deleted because, it didn't have any sense. For now I don't care about tries. — Thrillidas, Sep 25 '20 at 20:18
Does this answer your question? [Asking the user for input until they give a valid response](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23294658/asking-the-user-for-input-until-they-give-a-valid-response) — Tomerikoo, Sep 25 '20 at 21:09

Matthias · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-25T20:26:32.607

2

Loop forever and break from the loop if the answer is correct.

for character in word:
    print(character)
    while True:
        if character == input("Guess the letter: "):
            print("Correct")
            break
        else:
            print("Wrong !")

The while part of the code in real world language: "I'm going to ask you forever until you give me the correct answer."

edited Sep 25 '20 at 20:26

answered Sep 25 '20 at 20:21

Matthias

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Thanks you, and thanks to everybody that took a little time to answer this little and silly question ! I have a lot to learn, but I'm motivated thanks for current comunity :) – Thrillidas Sep 25 '20 at 20:32
Oh no, that was not a silly question if you're new. Over the time you'll see that a `while True` loop is used quite often in Python code. – Matthias Sep 26 '20 at 04:29

How to restart a loop if the input is wrong?

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