[Tutor] AntiSpam measures circumventing

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar at gmail.com>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 4:50 PM
> Subject: [Tutor] AntiSpam measures circumventing
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I shared some assembly code (microcontrollers) and I had a comment wit 
> my e-mail address for contact purposes.
> 
> Supposing my name is John Doe and the e-mail is john.doe at hotmail.com, my 
> e-mail was written like this:
> 
> REMOVEMEjohn.doSPAMeSPAM at REMOVEMEhotmail.com'
> 
> With a note saying to remove the capital letters.
> 
> Now, I wrote this :
> 
> for character in my_string:
> ...     if (character == character.upper()) and (character !='@') and 
> (character != '.'):
> ...             my_string = my_string.replace(character,'')
> 
> 
> And the end result was john.doe at hotmail.com.
> 
> Is there a better way to do that ? Without using regular expressions 
> (Looked *really* ugly and it doesn't really make sense, unlike the few 
> lines I've written, which are obvious even to a beginner like me).

I used this a while ago. It's not Python, but it's effective:  http://www.jottings.com/obfuscator/