In python, how would I turn multiple user inputs into a str or a list?

Question

I am working on a simple hangman game program, so the user inputs a letter as a guess. How would I put these letters into a list?

while not game_over:
  guess = input("Guess a letter. ")
  for pos in range(len(chosen_word)):
    letter = chosen_word[pos]
    if letter == guess:
      display[pos] = letter
  print(display)
  if display.count("_") == 0:
    print("Game over. ")
    game_over = True

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '22 at 22:34

You could convert the dict display after the fact, using a for loop:

displayList = []
for i in display.values():
  displayList.append(i)

Using list comprehension:

displayList = [i for i in display.values()]

More info about that: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_lists_comprehension.asp

Or in the while loop by replacing display[pos] = letter with: displayList.append(letter)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 11 '22 at 03:42

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guesses = []

while not game_over:
  guess = input("Guess a letter. ")
  guesses.extend(guess)

Given inputs of a and b, this produces a guesses list like ['a', 'b'].

edited Oct 11 '22 at 03:42

Karl Knechtel

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answered Mar 19 '22 at 22:58

timelyfor

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Please don't use snippets for languages other than Javascript. Their purpose is to ask the browser to try to run the code, and that doesn't work for other languages. – Karl Knechtel Oct 11 '22 at 03:43

Prince · Answer 3 · 2022-03-20T12:49:59.080

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Convert the string to a list using list():

guess = input("Guess a letter. ")
g1 = list(guess)
print(g1)

input: hi
output:['h', 'i']

edited Mar 20 '22 at 12:49

answered Mar 19 '22 at 22:45

Prince

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Thank you. I went with something very similar to this. – timelyfor Mar 19 '22 at 22:55

In python, how would I turn multiple user inputs into a str or a list?

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