thought about it somemore and this is what i got. by the way i do know how to use arrays. however i don't know how to manipulate the strings so i came up with this on my own.
word = house
thats the word you are suppose to find. then i find the length of word (this case it would be 5). then i would put it into a while loop.
a = 0
while a <= 4:
list.append(word(a))
a = a + 1
now to my understanding this loop would continue 5 times. the first time it would assign h to the list. the 2nd time it would assign o. and so on and so forth. is that anywhere near being correct?
ok, so a string is treated just like a list in python. just found out about that.
some corrections:
word = 'house'
or
word = "house"
you access a character of a string as word[a] where a is an integer.