Write a simple version of the classic game Hangman in python. As the heart of yo

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Write a simple version of the classic game Hangman in python. As the heart of your program, implement a function playHangman(secret) that manages a single round of the game. The parameter is presumed to be a string which is the secret answer; consider it unknown to the player.
The game should begin by displaying a version of the answer with the original spacing and punctuation, but with each alphabetic character replaced by an underscore '_' character. Then start asking the player to enter a single character as a guess. If that character is hidden in the answer, inform the user of his success and redisplay the disguised message but with all occurrences of the letter displayed. If the guess was wrong, inform the user. This process should continue either until the entire message had been uncovered or until there have been seven incorrect guesses.

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Dear,

import random

import time

#hangman game

 #the words - hints (this is a list of tuples with the word and corresponding hint

 theWords = [("kitchen", "some place that you cook in"),

 ("house", "its a place that you live in"),

 ("friend", "it is someone really close to you")]

 #seeding and finding out the random word and hint

random.seed(time.time())

 x = random.randint(0, len(theWords) - 1)

finalWord = theWords[x][0]

finalHint = theWords[x][1]

 #setting up the amount of incorrectGuesses the user has and the word guessed so far

incorrectGuesses = 5

soFar = "-" * len(finalWord)

#main while loop 

 while soFar != finalWord and incorrectGuesses > 0:

 print "You have %d many guesses left" % incorrectGuesses

 userGuess = raw_input("Please input ONE character or 'exit' to quit or 'hint' to get the hint: ")

 userGuess = userGuess.lower()

 #checking to see if the user wants to exit or get a hint

    if userGuess == "exit":

        break

    elif userGuess == "hint":

        print finalHint

 userGuess = raw_input("Please input ONE character or 'exit' to quit or 'hint' to get the hint: ")

 #checks to see if the user's guess is in the word and if it is update so far  

    if userGuess in finalWord:

 index = finalWord.find(userGuess)

        x = list(soFar)

        x[index] = userGuess

        soFar = "".join(x)

 print "Yes that guess is in the word"

 #the user didnt guess a correct letter and incorrectguess is reduced    

    else:

 print "Im sorry that letter is not in the word."

 incorrectGuesses = incorrectGuesses - 1

if soFar == finalWord:

    print "Congrats you won!"

else:

    print "Thanks for playing"

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