How to make it so that every alternate character in a string appears as a hyphen

Code using a for loop in Python:

word = "Python"  #Add your code for random words instead
ans = ""
for i in range(len(word)):
    if i%2 != 0:
        ans += "-"
    else:
        ans += word[i]
print(ans)

Output:

P-t-o-

You could get letters at even positions using a striding subscript (word[::2]) and join them with an hyphen. Make sure to have an extra space for the last letter in case the word has an even number of letters.

word = "Elephant"

hyphened = "-".join((word+' ')[::2])

print(hyphened)
E-e-h-n-

How to make it so that every alternate character in a string appears as a hyphen

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