How to replace the repeat word in python (Hangman Game)!

Question

This game now i have solved till the end.But here is 1 more problem that is how can i replace repeat word in string? please help me! Thank you. For example: my customfile inside there is word:"apple" and when hide the word with dashes: "-----" but when i replace in dashes string i can just only replace dash with 1 p:"ap-le" how can i replace dashes with 2p: "apple".My previous post for this program: How do i detect the repeat input in my hangman game (Python)! . Here is my code to replace:

def getGuessedWord():
    pos = word.index(guessword.lower())
    print(pos)
    global words             
    words = words[:pos]+ guessword.lower() +words[pos+1:]
    print(words)
    return words

Answer 1

My solution to your overall problem of filtering out guessed letters is the following set of functions:

guessed_letters = set()
def guess(letter):
    global guessed_letters
    guessed_letters.add(letter)

def filter_letter(letter):
    if letter in guessed_letters:
        return letter
    else:
        return '-'

def filtered(words):
    for word in words:
        output = ''
        for letter in word:
            output += filter_letter(letter)
        yield output

or more compactly:

guessed_letters = set()
def guess(letter):
    global guessed_letters
    guessed_letters.add(letter)

def filter_letter(letter):
    return letter if letter in guessed_letters else '-'

def filtered(words):
    return [''.join(map(filter_letter, word)) for word in words]

such that:

>>> words = "bubbly water".split()
>>> guess('a')
>>> ' '.join(filtered(words))
'------ -a---'
>>> guess('b')
>>> ' '.join(filtered(words))
'b-bb-- -a---