Replacing a words' letters in a string

[cananb]

Hi everyone, I am a beginner in Python. This is a challenge that I've found in a forum. This program is censoring the words' (which has given by the user) letters with "*" except the first letter. For example, If the sentence is "Every breath you take every move you make" and the input word is "every", the output should look like this:

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2 incidents found. Censored lyrics: E**** breath you take e**** move you make

This was my only idea but it did not work.

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text=input("Enter your text: ").lower() word=input("Choose a word from the previously entered text: ").lower() def censor(text,word): t=text.split() n=[] for i in t:     if(i==word):         n.append("*"*len(word))     else:         n.append(i) return " ".join(n) print censor(text,word)

Any help would be appreciated!

[deanhystad]

Need to indent all code inside a function.

Use i.lower() when testing instead of forcing the entire text to be lower case. You also want to retain the first letter of the censored word.

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def censor(text,word):     t = text.split()     n = []     for i in t:         if(i.lower()==word):             # Retain first letter if I and append "*"         else:             n.append(i)     return " ".join(n)

Do you also want to return a count? Functions can return more than 1 value.

[perfringo]

If censor-word is followed by punctuation (every., every:, every, etc) it will not be censored.