How to seperate a list and have it continue onto a different line?

[Fuugie]

I am currently having trouble trying to get my code to continue onto the next line and have my code still work properly.

This is my code as of right now:

wordChoices = wordChoices = ['ant', 'baboon', 'badger', 'bat', 'bear', 'beaver', 'camel', 'cat', 'clam', 'cobra', 'cougar', 'coyote', 'crow','deer', 'dog', 'donkey', 'duck', 'eagle', 'ferret', 'fox', 'frog', 'goat', 'goose', 'hawk', 'lion', 'lizard', 'llama','mole', 'monkey', 'moose', 'mouse', 'mule', 'newt', 'otter', 'owl', 'panda', 'parrot', 'pigeon', 'python','rabbit', 'ram', 'rat', 'raven', 'rhino', 'salmon', 'seal', 'shark', 'sheep', 'skunk', 'sloth', 'snake', 'spider', 'stork', 'swan','tiger', 'toad', 'trout', 'turkey', 'turtle', 'weasel', 'whale', 'wolf', 'wombat', 'zebra']

word = choice(wordChoices)
wordLen = len(word)
guesses = wordLen * ['_']
maxIncorrect = 6
alphabet= 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz'
lettersTried = ''
numberGuesses = 0
lettersCorrect = 0
incorrectGuesses = 0


printGameRules(maxIncorrect, wordLen)

while (incorrectGuesses != maxIncorrect) and (lettersCorrect != wordLen):
    letter = getLetter()
    if len(letter)==1 and letter.isalpha():
        if letters_tried.find(letter) != -1:
            print "You already picked", letter
        else:
            lettersTried = lettersTried + letter
            firstIndex = word.find(letter)
            if  firstIndex == -1:
                incorrectGuesses = incorrectGuesses +1
                print "The",letter,"is not the mystery word"
            else:
                print"The",letter,"is in the mystery word"
                lettersCorrect = lettersCorrect+1
                for i in range(wordLen):
                    if letter == word[i]:
                        guesses[i] = letter

    else:
        print "Please guess a single letter in the alphabet."
    hangmanPics(incorrectGuesses)
    
    print ''.join(guesses)
    print "Letters tried so far: ", lettersTried
    if incorrectGuesses == maxIncorrect:
        print "Sorry, too many incorrect guesses. You are hanged."
        print "the word was",word
    if lettersCorrect == wordLen:
        print "You guessed all the letters in the word!"
        print "the word was",word

raw_input()

Any help would be much appreciated

[bvdet]

I cannot tell what your problem is just by looking at the posted code. Since the posted code is incomplete, I cannot test it. Please be more specific or post enough code so it can be tested.

[dwblas]

        word_list = list(word)
        ...... code in between removed
        for i in range(wordLen):
            if letter == word_list[i]:
                guesses[i] = letter
                word_list[i] = "*"

Note that for 'baboon', if you want to only replace one letter at a time, replace found letters with "*" so the same letter won't be found a second time.