Censor Dispenser email three please check my work

#1

My brain is so fried from this one I can’t tell if I did this correctly, or completely overthought it. I think this returns the correct string, but if someone can point me in the right direction that would be great. For some reason I can’t find the solution online to compare myself to. Thanks!

def censor_email_three(email, terms):
  email_split = email.split(" ")
  censored_terms = []
  
  count = 0
  for term in terms:
    censored_term = ""
    for i in range(len(term)):
      if term[i] == " ":
        censored_term = censored_term + " "
      else:
        censored_term = censored_term + "*"
    censored_terms.append(censored_term)
  
  for i in range(len(email_split)):
    for x in range(len(terms)):
      if email_split[i] == terms[x]:
        count += 1
        if count == 3:
          for y in range(len(terms)):
            for b in range(i, len(email_split)):
              if email_split[b] == terms[y]:
                email_split[b] = censored_terms[y]
  email_final = " ".join(email_split)
  censored_email_final = censor_email_two(email_final, proprietary_terms)
  return censored_email_final
#2

I’ve already seen some issues, forgot to include a .lower() check for uppercase matching words…and I removed the billions of nested for loops and changed it to:

for i in range(len(email_split)):
    for x in range(len(terms)):
      if email_split[i] == terms[x]:
        count += 1
        if count == 3:
          index = i
          
for y in range(len(terms)):
  for b in range(index, len(email_split)):
    if email_split[b] == terms[y]:
      email_split[b] = censored_terms[y]

I’ll go figure out the uppercase issues now.

Edit: Also realized in the previous setup should have check if count was >= 3

#3

I figured it all out…I totally overthought everything lol…

def censor_email_three(email, terms):
  email_split = email.split(" ")
  email_split_lower = []

  for word in email_split:
    email_split_lower.append(word.lower())

  count = 0
  # sets the first index to start replacing terms after seeing any one of the terms twice
  for i in range(len(email_split)):
    for x in range(len(terms)):
      if email_split_lower[i] == terms[x]:
        count += 1
        if count == 3:
          word = email_split_lower[I]

  email_final = " ".join(email_split)
  word_index = email_final.find(word)
  email_first_half = email_final[:word_index]
  email_second_half = email_final[word_index:]

  for term in terms:
    censor_word = ""
    for i in range(len(term)):
      if term[i] == " ":
        censor_word = censor_word + " "
      else:
        censor_word = censor_word + "*"
    email_second_half = email_second_half.replace(term, censor_word).replace(term.title(), censor_word)

  censored_email_final = email_first_half + email_second_half
  censored_email_final = censor_email_two(censored_email_final, proprietary_terms)

  return censored_email_final

This turned out to be a simpler way to work through this rather than the way I was trying to. I could probably clean up my variable names a little but at this point I’m just glad I worked it out.