replace all characters in a string with asterisks

Question

I have a string

name = \"Ben\"

that I turn into a list

word = list(name)

I want to replace the characters

Answer 1

I want to replace the characters of the list with asterisks. How can I do this?

I will answer this question quite literally. There may be times when you may have to perform it as a single step particularly when utilizing it inside an expression

You can leverage the str.translate method and use a 256 size translation table to mask all characters to asterix

>>> name = "Ben"
>>> name.translate("*"*256)
'***'

Note because string is non-mutable, it will create a new string inside of mutating the original one.