Question

Program Instructions

Write a program called censor.py. This program will have the following functionality and requirements:

• Has a main function:
  • That asks the user to input a sentence
  • Then asks the user to enter a list of words they want to replace (separated by spaces)
  • Calls a function called replaceMultiWords passing those two parameters, which returns a filtered string
  • Prints out the filtered (censored) string to the console
    
• Has a replaceMultiWords function that:
  • Takes a string "sentence" and a string "words" in as parameters. (Note: "words" is a string containing the words to replace, separated by spaces)
  • Does appropriate splitting on the "words" string and in a loop calls the replaceWord function to replace it in the string
  • Returns a sentence with all occurrences of all words replaced
    
• Has a replaceWord function that:
  • Takes a string "sentence" and string "word" (a single word to replace)
  • Replaces the "word" in "sentence" with dashes (equaling the number of letters in the word)
  • Return the sentence with the single word replaced throughout
    
• Has a conditional call to main

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Skeleton of needed code:

def main():
    # Get input for the phrase/sentence
    # Get input for multiple words to replace
    print(replaceMultiWords(s, w))

def replaceMultiWords(sentence, words):
    # Split "words" by space
    # Loop through each words, and call replaceWord(s, w)
    # return sentence when done looping

def replaceWord(sentence, word):
    # Replace word in sentence with equal amount of dashes
    # return sentence

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Answer 1

Program In Python :-

def main():
    # Get input for the phrase/sentence
    s = input("Input a sentence : ")
    # Get input for multiple words to replace
    w = input("Enter a list of words you want to replace (separated by spaces) : ")
    print(replaceMultiWords(s, w))

def replaceMultiWords(sentence, words):
    # Split "words" by space
    lst = words.split(" ")
    # Loop through each words, and call replaceWord(s, w)
    for i in lst:
        sentence = replaceWord(sentence,i)
    # return sentence when done looping
    return sentence

def replaceWord(sentence, word):
    # Replace word in sentence with equal amount of dashes
    l = len(word)   #find the length of the word
    dashes = '-' * l
    sentence = sentence.replace(word,dashes)
    # return sentence
    return sentence

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Output:-