Function asteriskText

botasaurus/string_utils.py:24–50

(inp)

        return data

def asteriskText(inp):
    from random import randint
    from math import ceil    

    if not inp:  # Do nothing if no string passed
        return ""
    rep="*"

    arr = list(inp)  # Convert String to Array
    len_arr = len(arr)

    if len_arr <= 2:
        i = 1
    else:
        i = ceil(len_arr / 2) 

    i = min(i, len_arr)  # Ensure i doesn't exceed the array length

    done = set()
    while i > 0: 
        r = randint(0, len_arr - 1)
        if r in done:
            continue
        arr[r] = rep 
        done.add(r)
        i -= 1
    return "".join(arr)

def hide_text_with_asterisk(data, exceptKeys=[]):
    """