pyleetspeak 0.0.3

Transform casual text into a leetspeak version.

LeetTransformer :one::three::three::seven::robot:

Under development! Only Basic Leet is available which consists of substituting every vowel for a number.

• Installation

• Examples of How to Use

Installation

pip install pyleetspeak

Examples of How To Use

The only required argument that the user has to provide is the text_in argument which represent the casual text to transform to leetspeak. Nonetheless, there are other optional arguments that control the behaviour of the transformation:`

• change_prb determines the probability of a transformation to take place (i.e, if it is equal 1 all the possible transformation will be applied).

• change_frq is affects how frequently a transformation will occur (i.e, if it is equal 1 all the letters of this transformation type will be changed)

• mode controls the level of leetspeak transformation. Currently only basic mode is available. We are working on more modes. Stay tuned.

• seed controls the reproducibility of the results. By default no seed is applied.

• verbose controls the verbosity of the proccess.

Let's see a simple working example:

from pyleetspeak import LeetSpeaker

text_in = "I speak leetspeak"

leeter = LeetSpeaker(text_in, change_prb=0.8,  change_frq=0.6, mode = "basic", seed = None, verbose=False)

leet_result = leeter.text2leet()

print(leet_result)

# "1 spe4k l33tsp34k"

For the sake of reproducibility you can set a random seed:

from pyleetspeak import LeetSpeaker

leeter = LeetSpeaker(text_in, change_prb=0.8,  change_frq=0.5, mode = "basic", seed = 42, verbose=False)

leet_result = leeter.text2leet()

print(leet_result)

# "1 sp34k l3etspeak"

Minor concerns about the package behaviour: accents are deleted using Unidecode. This is important for languages like Spanish, where the word "melocotón" is preprocessed as "melocoton" and finally transformed to leetspeak.