Hello Neo

• Basic Hangman clone in Python
• List Example I
• Hangman

The following game illustrates the use of lists.

import random

def play(self):
    # List of words to choose from
    words = [ 'apple', 'banana', 'pig', 'going' ]

    guesses = []

    chances = 7
    tries = 0

    # Pick a random word
    word = random.choice(common_nouns)

    gameword = [ '_' ] * len(word)

    # This is our game loop.
    while tries < chances:
        print("")
        print("=====")

        print(" ".join(gameword))
        print("")

        # Ask the player to guess a letter.
        print("Guesses: " + "".join(guesses))
        print("Tries left: ", chances-tries)
        guess = input("Please guess a letter: ")

        # Did we already guess this letter?
        if guess not in guesses:
            guesses.append(guess)
            guesses.sort()

            if guess in word:
                for i in range(len(word)):
                    if word[i] == guess:
                        gameword[i] = guess
            else:
                tries = tries + 1


        # Check if the word has been completely guessed
        if '_' not in gameword:
            print("Congratulations! You've guessed the word: " + word)
            break

        if tries >= chances:
            print("You've run out of attempts. The word was: " + word)

Initially, you can just use print(gameword) instead of a more complex way of printing the game word. Later you can introduce .join() and explain what it does. Also, after the testing stage you can add more words.