While loop print on a different line

Question

I have coded a game of Hangman. For unknown letters, it prints a _, but because it is in a while loop it prints a different line. Is there a way to put all the dashes on the same line, so it easier to read?

My code is below:

import time
import random

# Welcoming the user
name = input("What is your name? ")

print("Hello, " + name, "Time to play hangman!")

print(" ")

# Wait for 1 second
time.sleep(1)

print("Start guessing letters...")
time.sleep(0.5)

# Here we set the secret
words = ("pyhton","coding","recycle","dawn","vision","talkative","love","difficulty","late","bake","compact","old","employee","be","bubble","guess","home","urgency","buttocks","shop","fluctuation",
"snack","fling","structure","incentive","enemy","fastidious","overcharge","disagreement","consciousness")
word = random.choice(words)

# Creates an variable with an empty value
guesses = ''

# Determine the number of turns
turns = 10

# Create a while loop

# Check if the turns are more than zero
while turns > 0:

    # Make a counter that starts with zero
    failed = 0

    # For every character in secret word
    for char in word:

    # See if the character is in the players guess
        if char in guesses:

            # Print then out the character
            print(char)

        else:

            # If not found, print a dash
            print("_")

            # And increase the failed counter with one
            failed += 1

    # If failed is equal to zero

    # Print "You Won"
    if failed == 0:
        print("You won, The word was", word)

        # Exit the script
        break

    print

    # Ask the user go guess a character
    guess = input("guess a character: ")

    # Set the players guess to guesses
    guesses += guess

    # If the guess is not found in the secret word
    if guess not in word:

        # Turns counter decreases with 1 (now 9)
        turns -= 1

        # Print "Wrong"
        print("Wrong")

        # How many turns are left
        print("You have", + turns, 'more guesses' )

        # If the turns are equal to zero
        if turns == 0:

        # Print "You Lose"
            print("You Lose")
            print("The word was",word)"

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Thunder Coder · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-13T18:26:46.347

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The print function has an end parameter which means you can say something like this:

print("text", end=" ")

And instead of moving to a new line, your code will print everything on the same line with spaces between every print.

Note you will have to add this to both print statements:

# see if the character is in the players guess
    if char in guesses:

    # print then out the character
        print(char, end=" ")

    else:

    # if not found, print a dash
        print("_", end=" ")

And you will have to add a "\n" to the front of the text that comes right after the word:

guess = input("\nguess a character: ")

edited Sep 13 '22 at 18:26

answered May 29 '21 at 18:55

Thunder Coder

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That works but now when I guess it wrong the rest of the dashes go on a different line – Josh May 29 '21 at 19:02
@Josh Are you adding the `end` parameter both when you are printing dashes and when you are printing characters the user guessed right? – Thunder Coder May 29 '21 at 19:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '21 at 18:56

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This should do the trick: Replace your print call for printing "_" with this:

print("_", end = "")

Example:

for i in range(10):
    print("_", end="")

# Out: __________

answered May 29 '21 at 18:56

Shubham

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That works but now when I guess it wrong the rest of the dashes go on a different line – Josh May 29 '21 at 19:04
@Josh It would help if you could send what output you are currently getting for the case you are talking about, and what output your want instead. – Shubham May 29 '21 at 19:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '21 at 18:56

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If you want to change the default character at the end of print calls, use the end keyword arg. Example:

>>> word = 'python'
>>> for x in word:
...     print(x, end = ' ')
...
p y t h o n

answered May 29 '21 at 18:56

will-hedges

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