The answer to the codeacademy censor question. Only tested in PyCharm.

codeObs.py

def censor(text, word):
    word_length = len(word)
    print(text)
    print(word_length)
    censored_word = word_length * '*'
    print(censored_word)
    separated_text = text.split()
    print(separated_text)
    update = [censored_word if x == word else x for x in separated_text]
    print(update)
    censored_text = " ".join(update)
    print(censored_text)

    return censored_text

censor('here is the text here', 'here')