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# 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
# Testing the function censor_one
#print(censor_one("learning algorithms"))
proprietary_terms = ["she", "personality matrix", "sense of self", "self-preservation", "learning algorithm", "her", "herself"]
def censor_two(censor_value="X"):
for term in proprietary_terms:
censored_email = email_two.replace(term, censor_value.upper())
return censored_email
print(censor_two("--"))
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