[Tutor] Eng to Leet Speek

[J Sisson]

You need a deterministic algorithm for conversion.  It's impossible (without
analyzing the context of the word) to translate "|_|#" (it's either "lf" or
"uh", but which?).




On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Castillo <ctcast at gmail.com> wrote:

> so I have a string:
>
> 1 4|-| 50 |_33+.  I love [#ick3n 4nd ch3353.  Don't you love +|_|2|\e7
> \/\/1+# the |#a|-|i|_7?
>
>
> and I am trying to turn it into english with the following code:
>
> fileIn = open("encrypted.txt", "r").read()
>
> def eng2leet(astring):
>     astring = astring.replace("4","a")
>     astring = astring.replace("8","b")
>     astring = astring.replace("[","c")
>     astring = astring.replace("|)","d")
>     astring = astring.replace("3","e")
>     astring = astring.replace("|#","f")
>     astring = astring.replace("6","g")
>     astring = astring.replace("#","h")
>     astring = astring.replace("1","i")
>     astring = astring.replace("]","j")
>     astring = astring.replace("|\\","k")
>     astring = astring.replace("|_","l")
>     astring = astring.replace("|-|","m")
>     astring = astring.replace("|\\","n")
>     astring = astring.replace("0","o")
>     astring = astring.replace("|*","p")
>     astring = astring.replace("0\\","q")
>     astring = astring.replace("2","r")
>     astring = astring.replace("5","s")
>     astring = astring.replace("+","t")
>     astring = astring.replace("|_|","u")
>     astring = astring.replace("\/","v")
>     astring = astring.replace("\/\/","w")
>     astring = astring.replace("><","x")
>     astring = astring.replace("7","y")
>     astring = astring.replace("7_","z")
>     return astring
>
> print eng2leet(fileIn)
>
> Only problem is that when it needs to translate a U or a W it prints an L
> or 2 V's. Need some help please. Thanks
>
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