Replace first character

[dtweaponx]

Really having a hard time figuring this out. What I'm trying to do is every time the user inputs text, it will modify and replace every leading character with a "#". For example the user types: Hello my name is bob, python would print "#ello #y #ame #s #ob. Every leading character replaced.

get_text = str(input("Type any sentence"))
modified = get_text.replace([1] , '#', 9999)


print (modified)

[perfringo]

input() returns string, so no need to convert to string.

You need to replace first letter of every word, not only the first letter of whole string. In order to do so one can split string into words, change first letter of every word and construct new string from new words.

[dtweaponx]

input() returns string, so no need to convert to string.

You need to replace first letter of every word, not only the first letter of whole string. In order to do so one can split string into words, change first letter of every word and construct new string from new words.

I modified, still getting errors, where am I overlooking?

split_words = get_text.split(' ')
replace = split_words.replace([0] , '#', 9999)
join_words = ' '.join(split_words)
modified = join_words

[perfringo]

You are pretty close - you need to iterate all words with for-loop and make (correct) replacement.

[dtweaponx]

You are pretty close - you need to iterate all words with for-loop and make (correct) replacement.

I'm lost, I know I'm over looking something this morning. :[

split_words = get_text.split(' ')
for characters in split_words:
    split_words.replace([0], '###'))

[jefsummers]

split_words is a list.
In line 3 you are using the replace function on the list, when you want to do it on each element of the list (you are likely getting an error as replace is not a list function). Also, look up the proper syntax and use of replace - you discard the result.

[perfringo]

I am on the phone right now but I had something like below in mind:

>>> sentence = "Spam, ham and eggs" 
>>> print(" ".join(["".join(["#", word[1:]]) for word in sentence.split()]))
#pam, #am #nd #ggs

[jefsummers]

An easy step by step approach:

get_text = input("Type something ")
words = get_text.split(' ')
new_text = []
for word in words:
    new_text.append(word.replace(word[0],'#'))
result = ' '.join(new_text)
print(result)

Line 1 - get the phrase
Line 2 - Split the phrase at the spaces, creates a list "words"
Line 3 - create the new list (empty) for the modified words
Line 4 - start loop iterating through the words list
Line 5 - replace the first letter of each word with a # and append it to the list of modified words
Line 6 - join the modified words together to make a new result
Line 7 - print the result.

There are lots of ways to combine functions to reduce the number of lines, as perfringo showed.