List Censor Thread

[palmtrees]

I am making a program for my Introduction to Computer Science course where I have to type in a sentence: "Dr Mathias is completely full of shirt I wish that jumping papaya would eat some macaroni" and censor the words: "papaya, grasshopper, jumping, shirt, macaroni".

I was able to make a program that would censor words that were inputted, but I am not able to fix it to where it would automatically censor words that are put into a list, without having to input anything. This is where I have gotten so far, when I try to do it I am not getting any output.

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#program to censor a string     #input sentence and which words to censor originalsentence = raw_input("Enter the text to censor: ") censoredwords = ["papaya","grasshopper","jumping","shirt","macaroni"]     censor="" wordattempt=[] wordlist="".join(censoredwords) counter=0   #apply censor to words typed in for character1 in str(originalsentence):     for character2 in censoredwords:         if character1 == wordlist[counter]:             wordattempt.append(character1)             censor=censor+"*"             counter=counter+1               #print censored version of word             if "".join(wordattempt)==censoredwords and counter == len(censoredwords):                 print originalsentence.replace(censoredwords,censor)                 censor=""                 wordattempt=[]                 counter=0

Any help is appreciated. Thank you

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[Larz60+]

Rather than trying to do this character  by character, split the input and do it word by word:

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originalsentence = raw_input("Enter the text to censor: ") censoredwords = ["papaya", "grasshopper", "jumping", "shirt", "macaroni"]     accepted_words = [] # apply censor to words typed in orig_words = originalsentence.split() for word in orig_words:    if word not in censoredwords:        accepted_words.append(word) accepted_sentence = '' for word in accepted_words:    accepted_sentence = accepted_sentence + word + ' ' print(accepted_sentence)

Output:
[size=small][font=Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace]Enter the text to censor: I had a papaya horny grasshopper toad jump,  jumping on my ugly shirt[/font][/size]

[size=small][font=Monaco, Consolas, Courier, monospace]I had a horny toad jump, on my ugly[/font][/size]

Larz60+

[palmtrees]

Thank you so much! I appreciate it a lot!

[palmtrees]

how would I get the program to replace the words in the list with asterisks?

[nilamo]

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if word not in censoredwords:       accepted_words.append(word)    else:       accepted_words.append('***')

[palmtrees]

Thank you!

[nilamo]

If you prefer a single line, this would also do:

1	accepted_words.append('***' if word in censoredwords else word)