Here’s my problem:
If the guessed letter appears more than once in the word, only the first one is changed (from an asterisk).
answer = "hippo"
#using hippo as a test word. Later will add a list of words and use random.
show_word = list(len(answer) * "*")
#the secret word or 'answer' is first represented by a string of ***'s.
turn = 1
guesses = ""
while turn < 10:
guess = raw_input("guess a letter")
if guess in answer:
show_word[answer.index(guess)] = guess
#if the guess is correct the corresponding asterisk is changed to the guessed letter
print ''.join(show_word)
else:
print "no", guess
guesses += guess
turn += 1
print guesses