[Tutor] Eng to Leet Speek

[Alan Gauld]

"Chris Castillo" <ctcast at gmail.com> wrote


> and I am trying to turn it into english with the following code:
> 
> def eng2leet(astring):
>    astring = astring.replace("4","a")
>    astring = astring.replace("8","b")
>    astring = astring.replace("[","c")
>    astring = astring.replace("|)","d")

You might want to investigate the maketrans and translate 
functions in the string module.

The seem to be quite similar in intent to what you are trying 
to do?

HTH,


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