Want Python to tell where a randomly guessed letter is in a computer generated word

Question

I'm making an elementary version of hangman and wish for the computer to tell the user where the correctly guessed letter is ("first", "second", etc.). Here is what I have so far:

print("ok, I have just thought up a word.  It has ",word_count," letters in it.  Make sure you draw that many blank spaces.")
first_try=input("Ok, whats the first letter you want to guess?")
if first_try in mystery_word:
    print("Good guess it is the"    "letter(s) in the word")

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9647202/ordinal-numbers-replacement — Frank Yellin, Dec 29 '20 at 00:49
Does this answer your question? [Ordinal numbers replacement](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9647202/ordinal-numbers-replacement) — Ferran Buireu, Dec 29 '20 at 08:41
Does this answer your question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2294493/how-to-get-the-position-of-a-character-in-python — greenmarker, Dec 29 '20 at 08:50
Not really, what I'm trying to do is if the computer randomly picks the word "congress' from a list, and when asked for a letter, the user inputs 's' I would like the computer to say "good choice, it is the 7th and 8th letters" — Andrew, Dec 29 '20 at 23:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 29 '20 at 01:14

First use a list comprehension to get all the indexes in the mystery_word of the letter for first_try also add 1 since indexes start from 0
then use the humanize module all the indexes to the ordinal version (e.g. from 2 to 2nd)
Then just use .join to print the ordinals in a nice format along with the Good guess it is ..."

import humanize


mystery_word = "saample"
word_count = 5
print("ok, I have just thought up a word.  It has ",word_count," letters in it.  Make sure you draw that many blank spaces.")
first_try=input("Ok, whats the first letter you want to guess?")
if first_try in mystery_word:
    indexes = [(n+1) for n,x in enumerate(mystery_word) if x == first_try]

    indexes = [humanize.ordinal(index) for index in indexes]

    print("Good guess it is the",','.join(indexes),"letter(s) in the word")

Output:

ok, I have just thought up a word.  It has  5  letters in it.  Make sure you draw that many blank spaces.
Ok, whats the first letter you want to guess?a
Good guess it is the 2nd,3rd letter(s) in the word

Hey, is there any way to run the humanize function on an online compiler? Keep getting an error when I run this code. — Andrew, Dec 29 '20 at 22:56
you would have to hard code the ```humanizer``` module or something similar — coderoftheday, Dec 30 '20 at 01:24

Want Python to tell where a randomly guessed letter is in a computer generated word

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