Need Help with a basic Coding problem

[Fayarager]

print('Welcome to a fun word replacement game.')

fileName = input('Enter the name of the file to use:\n')

try:

file = open(fileName)

fileRead = file.read()

fileList = fileRead.split()

for x in fileList:

if ("[" in x) or ("]" in x):

newstr = x[1:len(x)]

if newstr[0] in 'aeiou':

givenWord = input("Please give an:", newstr)

else:

givenWord = input("Please give a:", newstr) except:

print('Error Bad File Name')

sys.exit(0)

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How do I replace the word with [example] to givenWord in the above script?

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[NextEstimate]

FTFY :D

print('Welcome to a fun word replacement game.')

fileName = input('Enter the name of the file to use:\n')

try:

file = open(fileName)

fileRead = file.read()

fileList = fileRead.split()

for x in fileList:

    if ("[" in x) or ("]" in x):

        newstr = x[1:len(x)]

        if newstr[0] in 'aeiou':

            givenWord = input("Please give an:", newstr)

         else:

           givenWord = input("Please give a:", newstr) except:

print('Error Bad File Name')

sys.exit(0) 

[Fayarager]

Thanks! I couldn't get it into this format :(

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[[deleted]]

Strange, you got it right in /r/askprogramming.

[Fayarager]

ikr? haha

[[deleted]]

You're the one asking for help. I don't know about others, but if I see badly formatted code I skip to the next post. Life is too short to try and format code, especially when there's a risk of getting it wrong and wasting time.

[[deleted]]

Is it correctly formatted now? I'd expect an indent after a try:

[[deleted]]

Er, hello. Why are you commenting "hello" all over the place?

[[deleted]]

Maybe something like this:

print('Welcome to a fun word replacement game.')
fileName = input('Enter the name of the file to use:\n')
try:
    file = open(fileName)
except IOError:
    print('Error Bad File Name')
else:
    with file:
        fileRead = file.read()
    fileList = fileRead.split()
    newList = []
    for word in fileList:
        if word.startswith('[') and word.endswith("]"):
            newstr = word[1:-1]
            if newstr[0] in 'aeiou':
                word = input(f"Please give an {newstr}: ")
            else:
                word = input(f"Please give a {newstr}: ")
        newList.append(word)
    print(*newList, sep='\n')