This function called censor that takes two strings, text and word, as input and returns the text with the word you chose replaced with asterisks.

Replace characters with asterisks (Censor).py

def match_characters(word1, word):
    for i in word1.lower():
        for j in word.lower():
            if i == j:
                return True
            else:
                return False

def censor(text, word):
    textlist = text.split()
    for char in textlist:
        if match_characters(char, word):
            text = text.replace(char, '*' * len(char))
    return text