Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > I think he may be referring to "bad" words, and 'filthy' language. At > least that's what i got from the question. > There are many PHP implementations on the web, which could be adapted > to python fairly easily. Most of which are probably not the most > ideal solution and > involve alot of stuff like > > for n in badwords: > texttofilter.replace(n, '<bad word deleted>') > > If that's all you need though, maybe it's not so bad.
This is a no-op, since it replaces the text, but then discards it. You meant: for badWord in badWords: textToFilter = textToFilter.replace(badWord, '<)!&%(#&)%>') -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. -- Walt Whitman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list