🔒 Beginner Help with Python how to insert a character in a variable from a string

[kindred bear]

@glossy sinew

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[glossy sinew]

word_list = ["ardvark", "baboon", "camel"]
random_word = random.choice(word_list)
ask_letter = input("What is your letter?").lower()
correct_letter =

[heavy forum]

what are you trying to do?

[glossy sinew]

sorry for my poor English. I'm trying to insert one of the letters in the word list into the correct_letter variable

for example, if the random_word is baboon, the correct_letter variable should get the letters from the baboon

its for a hangman project im doing

[heavy forum]

so like you want each letter of the word baboon?

[glossy sinew]

yes

but it's a random word chosen off the list
so i cant just write the individual letters

[heavy forum]

ooooh i think i get it so basically

your turning the random word into a list

and if the users input is in that list they get it correct or something

?

[glossy sinew]

yes

its kind of like hangman

[heavy forum]

just use list()

[glossy sinew]

got it

thanks

[untold chasm]

You can use a set to strip duplicate letters for you, if you don't care about their position.
But in your case it's probably not necessary

!e

word = "your word"
unique_chars = set(word)

print(unique_chars)```

[kindred bear]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

{'y', ' ', 'u', 'r', 'd', 'o', 'w'}

[glossy sinew]

ok

[kindred bear]

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