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eschneider92@comcast.net wrote:

> I'm trying to replace the blank(_) with the letter typed in by the user,
> in the appropriate blank(_) spot where the letter should be (where is in
> the letters list).
> 
> letters='abcdefg'
> blanks='_ '*len(letters)
> print('type letter from a to g')
> print(blanks)
> input1=input()
> for i in range(len(letters)):
>     if letters[i] in input1:
>         blanks = blanks[:i] + letters[i] + blanks[i+1:]
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong in this code?

`blanks` has two chars per letter in `letters`. If you change the initial 
value to

blanks = "_" * len(letters)

your code should work. If you think the output looks better with spaces you 
have to adjust the indices -- or you add spaces for printing only with

print(" ".join(blanks))