I'm trying to make a code that finds special characters and replace them in to *.
For example:
L!ve l@ugh l%ve
This should be changed as
L*ve l*ugh l*ve
Here it's what I tried so far
a = input()
spe = "+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)"
for i in a:
if i in spe:
b = a.replace(i,"*")
else:
b = i
print(b,end="")
This returns something like this
Lve lugh lve
Why I'm getting like this?
And how to solve this issue?
You're trying to modify the whole string whereas you should only work on the character.
Modifying your code, this would be:
a = '(L!ve l@ugh l%ve)'
spe = set("+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)") # using a set for efficiency
for char in a:
if char in spe:
print('*', end='')
else:
print(char, end='')
output: *L*ve l*ugh l*ve*
A more pythonic way would be:
spe = set("+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)")
print(''.join(['*' if c in spe else c for c in a]))
When you reach the if statement and if meets the condition it goes into the branch and executes. If all you want to do is print the statement you could run:
a = input()
spe = "+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)"
for i in a:
if i in spe:
b = "*"
print(b)
else:
b = i
print(b,end="")
but you could also save it as a string
a = input()
new_string = ""
spe = "+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)"
for i in a:
if i in spe:
new_string += "*"
else:
new_string += i
print(new_string)
A simple way to do it:
import string
all_chars = string.ascii_letters
a = 'L!ve l@ugh l%ve'
for item in a:
if item ==' ':
pass
elif item not in all_chars:
item='*'
print(item, end="")
As another alternative, you could try a regular expression. Here are two potential approaches depending on how you want to define your set of characters:
import re
print(re.sub('[^a-zA-Z\d\s]', '*', "L!ve l@ugh l%ve"))
print(re.sub("[$&+,:;=?@#|'<>.^*()%!-]", '*', "L!ve l@ugh l%ve"))
# L*ve l*ugh l*ve
There are two problems in your script:
a = "L!ve l@ugh l%ve"
spe = "+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)"
for i in a:
if i in spe:
b = i.replace(i,"*")
else:
b = i
print(b,end="")
Or, as we replace the characters in the original string, we can print it at the end:
a = "L!ve l@ugh l%ve"
spe = "+=/_(*&^%$#@!-.?)"
for i in a:
if i in spe:
b = a.replace(i,"*")
else:
b = a
print(b)
You should also consider using regular expressions:
import re
a = "L!ve l@ugh l%ve"
print(re.sub("[+\=\/_\(*&^%\$#@\!-\.\?\)]","*",a))
Which has exactly the same output.
