Replace all characters in a string with another character

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def getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    secretWord_copy = ""
    for i in secretWord:
        print(i)
        secretWord_copy = secretWord.replace(i," _ ")
    print(secretWord_copy)
secretWord = 'apple'

I’m trying to replace every character of secretWord by " - "but the above code only replaces the last:

Appl _

What is wrong?

The result should be _ _ _ _ _

python python-3.x

  • The final result should be "_____"?

  • @Barbetta: The result should be _ _ _ _ _

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I’m sorry to ask, but what would be the second parameter (lettersGuessed) of the function getGuessedWord. Because from what I am seeing it is not being used. And from what I understood of the function, just do the following to get the same result:

    def getGuessedWord(secretWord):
        print (len (secretWord) * ' _ ')
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You are always overwriting secretword without modifying it.

def getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    secretWord_copy = ""
    for i in secretWord:
        print(i)
        secretWord_copy = secretWord.replace(i," _ ")
        secretWord = secretWord_copy
    print(secretWord_copy)
secretWord = 'apple'

Unchanged secretWord:

def getGuessedWord(secretWord, lettersGuessed):
    secretWord_copy = secretWord
    for i in secretWord:
        print(i)
        secretWord_copy = secretWord_copy.replace(i,"_")
    print(secretWord_copy)
    print(secretWord)
secretWord = 'apple'

  • Actually I didn’t want to change the secretword, but only the copy. I need one more variable?

  • @Eds see the edit; just assign the original value to the copy at the beginning.

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