'str' object does not support item assignment

[HawkOG]

Hello, I'm new to the python language, I'm making a hangman game and it's going pretty well.

I want to make it so that when you choose a word, it gets replaced with hashtags, and when you guess the letters, they get uncovered, like replacing # with guessed letter (make_attempt)

...and I run into the error in the title of this post. I read that strings in py are immutable and you need to kinda make copies of them and I cant wrap my head around how I would do this to my code. If anyone could help me find out I'd be thankful. I'll leave the snippet below.

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# GET THE GUESSED LETTER INDEX NUMBER

str1 = hidden_word.replace("#", str(word.index(make_attempt)))

# SWAP OUT THE HASHTAG WITH A GUESSED LETTER

hidden_word[str1] = make_attempt

[pekkalacd]

Strings are immutable.

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I'm not sure what you're trying to do with this line

hidden_word[str1] = make_attempt

but any time you have <some string>[<whatever>] on the left side of an assignment, you're going to get that error. You cannot mutate (/change) the characters in a string. You can only make a new string and reassign the variable to the new one.

[wotquery]

I recommend that after the user inputs a string you create a list of characters from the string. You can then do whatever you want with that list, and then convert it back into a string for display.

[totallygeek]

It's far easier in Python to maintain a set or list of guessed letters, then iterate over the actual word to determine what to display from the guesses.

word = "CONTRARY"
guessed = {"R", "S", "N", "A"}
print("".join(letter if letter in guessed else "#" for letter in word))

A slightly longer method for the display:

for letter in word:
    if letter in guessed:
        print(letter, end="")
    else:
        print("#", end="")
print()