My Latest Leet Program

Just for fun today I did an update of an EnglishToLeetSpeak translator I had written a couple years ago.  I noticed that when I posted my update, my post count was almost ironic.  :-)

For a sample of how it works, look at this paragraph from my previous post:

Before:

Spent some time today installing a barebones (ie. no desktop) version of Ubuntu on an old Acer Aspire One netbook.  Feels weird to refer to it as old, as it was only a few years ago....


After:

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Here's the code: 

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# leet.py
# an experiment in python to produce a good leet encoder
# that does not use a one-to-one mapping
# mFragin May 2011
# version 1.5 maps first and then substitutes, so
# each example is internally letter consistant

import random, string

myDefinitions = [["4","@","/-\\","∂","λ","a","A"],
["6","I3","ß","|:","(3","/3","b","B"],
["¢","(","©","c","C"],
["∂","])","[)","T)","cl","d","D"],
["€","£","ë","e","E"],
["]=","ph","|=","f","F"],
["6","(_+","9","(γ","(_-","cj","g","G"],
["/-/","]-[",")-(","|~|","]~[","}{","h","H"],
["!","|",":","i","I"],
["_|","_/","]","j","J"],
["|<","k","K"], ["1","|","|_","l","L"], ["|v|","]V[","(T)","|\\/|","/\\/\\","m","M"], ["|\\|","]\\[","~","n","N"], ["0","[]","¤","Ω","o","O"], ["|o","|>","p","P"],
["(_,)","0_","O,","q","Q"],
["12","®","|2","r","R"],
["5","$","§","s","S"],
["+","-|-","†","t","T"],
["|_|","L|","µ","u","U"],
["\\/","√","v","V"],
["vv","\\V/","\\X/","UU","w","W"],
["%","><","}{","x","X"], ["Ψ","¥","y","Y"], ["2","z","Z"]] myKeys = string.ascii_lowercase # Make a dictionary of the keys and values myDict =dict(zip(myKeys, myDefinitions)) # Get a string from user and make it lower case stringToConvert = raw_input("\nEnter a string: ").lower() leetString = "" variations = int(raw_input("\nHow many variations? ")) for i in range(variations): leetString = "" chosenLetters = {} for letter in stringToConvert: if letter in chosenLetters: leetString += chosenLetters[letter] elif letter in string.ascii_lowercase: choice = random.choice(myDict[letter]) leetString += choice chosenLetters[letter] = choice else: leetString += letter print leetString