🔒 not understanding a snippet

[shell cobalt]

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[vernal radish]

is there anything there you're unfamiliar with?

Do you understand loops? Enumerate? Join?

so what about this are you unsure of?

it also looks like your last print shouldn't be indented into the loop

!e

word = 'elephant'
display_word = ['_'] * len(word)
print(display_word)

[shell cobalt]

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

['_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_']

[vernal radish]

let's pretend the word we're trying to guess is elephant

this is what display_word looks like initially

let's pretend we guess "e"

this loop is going through and updating all the positions where "e" should be in the list

['e', '_', 'e', '_', '_', '_', '_', '_']

so we would end up with this

index is the current position of each letter as we loop through the word

so whenever we have a match of guess and letter, we know where to update the list

[shell cobalt]

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