Censor Dispenser Part Three (email two)

data0064849674 · July 26, 2020, 3:18pm

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/codecademydev/f31e75803de468a761bf9be89cc75e7a

script.py

# These are the emails you will be censoring. The open() function is opening the text file that the emails are contained in and the .read() method is allowing us to save their contexts to the following variables:
email_one = open("email_one.txt", "r").read()
email_two = open("email_two.txt", "r").read()
email_three = open("email_three.txt", "r").read()
email_four = open("email_four.txt", "r").read()

def censor_one(original_text, censor_value="X"):
  """Censor a word or phrase in a piece of text by replacing it. Set the replace default value to "X"."""
  censored_email = email_one.replace(original_text, censor_value.upper())
  return censored_email

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This is relating to the function I created called “def censor_two.” I am having trouble censoring all the proprietary_terms from the email. It only censors the last word “herself.” It seems to me that it censors all the words each time but does not save the changes to the email_two. It only saves the changes for the last word “herself”.

Thank you

data0064849674 · July 26, 2020, 3:46pm

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/codecademydev/1adab2309e1c7f9e182139c35efe2372

script.py

# These are the emails you will be censoring. The open() function is opening the text file that the emails are contained in and the .read() method is allowing us to save their contexts to the following variables:
email_one = open("email_one.txt", "r").read()
email_two = open("email_two.txt", "r").read()
email_three = open("email_three.txt", "r").read()
email_four = open("email_four.txt", "r").read()

def censor_one(original_text, censor_value="X"):
  """Censor a word or phrase in a piece of text by replacing it. Set the replace default value to "X"."""
  censored_email = email_one.replace(original_text, censor_value.upper())
  return censored_email

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I was able to figure it out what happend. I guess what happened was it kept reading the original email_two file but only saved the censored on the last word which is “herself.” To fix this, I created a new variable and saved the email_two to it. Then I used the .replace() on the new variable and it worked. I guess the new variable “censored_email” kept all the changes.

system · September 6, 2020, 7:38am

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