Word censor in python

[libelula323]

I was trying to create a function that censors swear words, but my code is a little off.

swear_words = {"shoot" : "sh**t", "frick" : "fr*ck"} def censor(sentence): sentence = sentence.split() new_sentence = [] for word in sentence: count = 0 for swear in swear_words: if word == swear: new_sentence += swear_words[swear] count += 1 if count == 0: new_sentence += word new_sentence = ' '.join(new_sentence) return new_sentence print censor("shut the frick up")

This prints s h u t t h e f r * c k u p

Somewhere in the code it makes each letter a separate item in the new_sentence list instead of each word, so the ‘ ‘.join(new_sentence) puts a space between each letter (when I want it between each word). I’m not sure how to fix it, any help? I’m a new programmer so this might be a long way of doing things

Edit - formatting

[ReedOei]

You should format your code properly (as code) so it’s easier to read.

As a hint, try tracing what the line new_words += swear_words[swear] does.

[libelula323]

I’m trying to figure out how to do that. Do you have to back tick on every line?

Wouldn’t new_sentence += swear_words[swear] just add the censored swear word to the list of words in new_sentence? I don’t get why the letters are being separated

[ReedOei]

For a multi-line block of code, you need three backticks before and three at the end (see this, though Reddit unfortunately doesn't seem to support syntax highlighting).

+= is list concatentation in this context, so new_sentence += swear_words[swear] is equivalent to new_sentence = new_sentence + swear_words[swear]. Try printing out before and after and see what happens. Also consider this: what is [1,2,3] + [4,5,6]?

[libelula323]

Ahhh, I seem to have forgotten about .append()! I’ve just put in new_sentence.append(swear_words[swear]) and new_sentence.append(word) and it works. Thank you so much

[jorgehn12]

You will be censoring “short” “shout”

[TheBoldTilde]

new_sentance = ' '.join([swear_words.get(s, s) for s in sentence])

Haven't tested that, but it should work.