Filter out Bad Words From a Text File In Python

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I am wanting to read the contents of a text file and filter out the bad word from it.
{UPDATED} So I updated my python file after what you told me but right now I am getting a no module error. When I run pip3 install profanity_filter it gives me a big error.
I researched and found Profanity but it is not working
from profanity_filter import ProfanityFilter
pf = ProfanityFilter()

with open(input("Enter the name Of Your File"), "r") as myFile:
           j = myFile.read()
filtered = pf.censor(j)
print(filtered)

Here is the error I get when I try to run my file

Barmar · Answer

You need to create an instance of the class, and then call its censor() method.
And the argument has to be a string, not a list of strings. Call read() instead of readlines() to get the entire file as a single string.
from profanity_filter import ProfanityFilter
pf = ProfanityFilter()

with open(input("Enter the name Of Your File"), "r") as myFile:
   j = myFile.read()
filtered = pf.censor(j)
print(filtered)

Filter out Bad Words From a Text File In Python

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