Ce-s-r-d_Strings.md

CodeWars Python Solutions

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Cesr*d Strings

My PC got infected by a strange virus. It only infects my text files and replaces random letters by *, li*e th*s (like this).

Fortunately, I discovered that the virus hides my censored letters inside root directory.

It will be very tedious to recover all these files manually, so your goal is to implement uncensor function that does the hard work automatically.

Examples :

uncensor("*h*s *s v*ry *tr*ng*", "Tiiesae") ➜ "This is very strange"

uncensor("A**Z*N*", "MAIG") ➜ "AMAZING"

uncensor("xyz", "") ➜ "xyz"

Notes

• Expect all discovered letters to be given in the correct order.
• Discovered letters will match the number of censored ones.
• Any character can be censored.

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Given Code

def uncensor(infected, discovered):
    pass

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Solution 1

def uncensor(infected, discovered):
    x = 0
    infected = list(infected)
    for e,c in enumerate(infected):
        if c == "*":
            infected[e] = discovered[x]
            x += 1
    return "".join(infected)

Solution 2

def uncensor(infected, discovered):
    return infected.replace('*', '{}').format(*discovered)

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