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

Probably you are looking for something like this?

def blankout(instr, r='*', s=1, e=-1):
    if '@' in instr:
        # Handle E-Mail addresses
        a = instr.split('@')
        if e == 0:
            e = len(instr)
        return instr.replace(a[0][s:e], r * (len(a[0][s:e])))
    if e == 0:
        e = len(instr)
    return instr.replace(instr[s:e], r * len(instr[s:e]))