[Tutor] Eng to Leet Speek

[Chris Castillo]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, J Sisson <sisson.j at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?).
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> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Castillo <ctcast at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> so I have a string:
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>> 1 4|-| 50 |_33+.  I love [#ick3n 4nd ch3353.  Don't you love +|_|2|\e7
>> \/\/1+# the |#a|-|i|_7?
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>> and I am trying to turn it into english with the following code:
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>> fileIn = open("encrypted.txt", "r").read()
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>> 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
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>> print eng2leet(fileIn)
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>> 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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so is their some other way to go about this?
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