Python: Censoring a word in text but last word does not censor

Python: Censoring a word in text but last word does not censor

Its probably including the full stop in the last token, so it is comparing dirty. with dirty.

The last occurrence of dirty is dirty. instead of dirty.
It might be easier to use the replace function:

def censor(text,word):
    return text.replace(word, len(word)**)

Without built-in functions:

def censor(text,word):
    while 1:
        wordPosition = text.find(word)
        if wordPosition < 0:
            break
        text = text[:wordPosition] + len(word)** + text[wordPosition+len(word):]
    return text

Python: Censoring a word in text but last word does not censor

Christopher is correct that its comparing dirty to dirty. with a period. As you said you cannot use replace function, so you could change your if statement to be

if x.startswith(word) == True: