So, I decided to be clever and add a bunch of the functions we made in the exercises into one functional program… Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get it to work exactly how I want it to…
sentence = raw_input("Type a sentence without using capital letters or punctuation:")
badWord = raw_input("What word would you like to censor from the above sentence?")
error = "An error has occured, please restart the program and try again."
def censor(text, word):
if word in text:
return text.replace(word, (len(word) * "*"))
else:
return text
def reverse(text):
anti_text = ""
for char in text[::-1]:
anti_text += char
return anti_text
def pyglatin(text):
pyg = "ay"
word = text.lower()
first = word[0]
new_word = word + first + pyg
new_word = new_word[1:]
if len(text) > 0 and text.isalpha():
print new_word
else:
print error
def askQuestion2(text):
question_2 = raw_input("How about translating your sentence to pyglatin, yes or no?")
if question_2 == "yes":
new_2 = pyglatin(text)
elif question_2 == "no":
new_2 = text
else:
print error
print new_2
def askQuestions(text):
print text
question_1 = raw_input("Would you like your sentence to be reversed, yes or no?")
if question_1 == "yes":
new_1 = reverse(text)
askQuestion2(new_1)
elif question_2 == "no":
new_1 = text
askQuestion2(new_1)
else:
print error
askQuestions(censor(sentence, badWord))
It works great, until I tell it whether or not I want it to reverse the text. Doesn’t matter what I type (yes or no) it always just runs my else statement, meaning it will print my error statement. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong…
Reverse seems to work fine! But your function isn’t showing the reverse in the console so add print statements (optional).
def askQuestions(text):
print text
question_1 = raw_input("Would you like your sentence to be reversed, yes or no?")
if question_1 == "yes":
new_1 = reverse(text)
# print new_1?
askQuestion2(new_1)
elif question_2 == "no":
new_1 = text
#print new_1?
askQuestion2(new_1)
else:
print error
Censor conflicts with pyglatin because *** is not alpha. So you’ll get error if you censored somthing.
ALSO, spaces don’t pass through .isalpha() as well. So if you have spaces between words, the error happens too. I just removed .isalpha().
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Hi @aquaphoenix17,
One of the problems is that you define the variable question_2 in the askQuestion2 function, but not in the askQuestions function, and then attempt to test it here, in the askQuestions function …
elif question_2 == "no":
If execution gets to that elif block header, it will raise an error.
That is also a problem. It might be best to remove the isalpha method call from the pyglatin function.
Following is an alternative means of organizing the sequence of asking questions and calling functions…
def processQuestion(question, function, text):
ans = raw_input(question)
if ans == "yes":
return function(text)
elif ans == "no":
return text
else:
print error
return text
sentence = censor(sentence, badWord)
sentence = processQuestion("Would you like your sentence to be reversed, yes or no?", reverse, sentence)
sentence = processQuestion("How about translating your sentence to pyglatin, yes or no?", pyglatin, sentence)
print sentence
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This is what I have now… Tell me what you think:
def newLine():
print ""
def error():
print "An error has occured, please restart the program and try again."
def censor(text, word):
if word in text:
return text.replace(word, (len(word) * "*"))
else:
return text
def reverse(text):
anti_text = ""
for char in text[::-1]:
anti_text += char
return anti_text
def pyglatin(text):
pyg = "ay"
word = text.lower()
first = word[0]
new_word = word + first + pyg
new_word = new_word[1:]
if len(text) > 0:
return new_word
else:
error()
def askQuestion(text):
newLine()
print text
newLine()
question_2 = raw_input("How about translating your text to pyglatin, yes or no?")
if question_2 == "yes":
new_2 = pyglatin(text)
newLine()
print "Translating..."
newLine()
print new_2
elif question_2 == "no":
new_2 = text
newLine()
print "Processing..."
newLine()
print new_2
else:
error()
def askQuestions(text):
print "Censoring..."
newLine()
print text
newLine()
question_1 = raw_input("Would you like your text to be reversed, yes or no?")
if question_1 == "yes":
new_1 = reverse(text)
newLine()
print "Reversing..."
askQuestion(new_1)
elif question_1 == "no":
new_1 = text
newLine()
print "Processing..."
askQuestion(new_1)
else:
error()
def runCode():
word = raw_input("Type a word:")
newLine()
print "Processing..."
newLine()
print sentence
newLine()
badWord = raw_input("What would you like to censor from the above text?")
newLine()
askQuestions(censor(word, badWord))
runCode()
Hi @aquaphoenix17,
Does your most recent post include all of your code? When I copied and ran it, there was an error, as follows …
Type a word:hello hello bye hello
Processing...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Python/glenn/aquaphoenix17.py", line 80, in <module>
runCode()
File "/Python/glenn/aquaphoenix17.py", line 74, in runCode
print sentence
NameError: global name 'sentence' is not defined
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Sorry, I meant this:
def newLine():
print ""
def error():
print "An error has occured, please restart the program and try again."
def censor(text, word):
if word in text:
return text.replace(word, (len(word) * "*"))
else:
return text
def reverse(text):
anti_text = ""
for char in text[::-1]:
anti_text += char
return anti_text
def pyglatin(text):
pyg = "ay"
word = text.lower()
first = word[0]
new_word = word + first + pyg
new_word = new_word[1:]
if len(text) > 0:
return new_word
else:
error()
def askQuestion(text):
newLine()
print text
newLine()
question_2 = raw_input("How about translating your text to pyglatin, yes or no?")
if question_2 == "yes":
new_2 = pyglatin(text)
newLine()
print "Translating..."
newLine()
print new_2
elif question_2 == "no":
new_2 = text
newLine()
print "Processing..."
newLine()
print new_2
else:
error()
def askQuestions(text):
print "Censoring..."
newLine()
print text
newLine()
question_1 = raw_input("Would you like your text to be reversed, yes or no?")
if question_1 == "yes":
new_1 = reverse(text)
newLine()
print "Reversing..."
askQuestion(new_1)
elif question_1 == "no":
new_1 = text
newLine()
print "Processing..."
askQuestion(new_1)
else:
error()
def runCode():
word = raw_input("Type a word:")
newLine()
print "Processing..."
newLine()
print word
newLine()
badWord = raw_input("What would you like to censor from the above text?")
newLine()
askQuestions(censor(word, badWord))
runCode()
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It works very well now. 
; cool.
Just one suggestion - In the runCode function, change this …
word = raw_input("Type a word:")
… to something like this …
word = raw_input("Type some text: ")
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Here is what runCode() looks like now:
def runCode():
word = raw_input("Type some text: ")
newLine()
print "Processing..."
newLine()
print word
newLine()
badWord = raw_input("What would you like to censor from the above text?")
newLine()
askQuestions(censor(word, badWord))
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Type some text: good um... excellent um... awesome um... superb
Processing...
good um... excellent um... awesome um... superb
What would you like to censor from the above text?um...
Censoring...
good ***** excellent ***** awesome ***** superb
Would you like your text to be reversed, yes or no?yes
Reversing...
brepus ***** emosewa ***** tnellecxe ***** doog
How about translating your text to pyglatin, yes or no?yes
Translating...
repus ***** emosewa ***** tnellecxe ***** doogbay
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