Answer to Question #218754 in Python for Ravichandrasekhar

Question

Write a program that reads a single line of input and prints the first two and last two characters of the given input and prints the asterisk character (*) in place of the remaining characters.

Explanation

For example, if the given string is

message, then the first two and last two characters are me, ge. Now replacing all the remaining characters with * will give the output me***ge.

Answer 1

s = input()
if len(s) > 4:
	k = len(s) - 4
	s = s[:2] + '*'*k + s[len(s)-2:]
print(s)