Censor

Censor Words Longer Than Four Characters

Challenge Difficulty: Medium | Estimated completion time: ~15 minutes

Create a function that takes a string and censors words over four characters with *.

Examples

censor("The code is fourty")
output = "The code is ******"
 
censor("Two plus three is five")
output = "Two plus ***** is five"
 
censor("aaaa aaaaa 1234 12345")
output = "aaaa ***** 1234 *****"

Notes

• Don’t censor words with exactly four characters.
• If all words have four characters or less, return the original string.
• The amount of * is the same as the length of the word.

Solution

Python

def censor(text: str) -> str: """Censor words longer than four characters. Args: text: Input string Returns: String with words longer than 4 characters replaced by asterisks """ words = text.split() censored_words = [ "*" * len(word) if len(word) > 4 else word for word in words ] return " ".join(censored_words) if __name__ == "__main__": print(censor("The code is fourty")) # The code is ****** print(censor("Two plus three is five")) # Two plus ***** is five print(censor("aaaa aaaaa 1234 12345")) # aaaa ***** 1234 *****

Output