## Masking Sensitive Information with Regular Expressions

In many real-world scenarios, you need to protect sensitive information within text, such as credit card numbers. Using **regular expressions**, you can locate these numbers and mask them effectively. Your goal is to write a function that replaces all but the last four digits of every credit card number in a given string with asterisks (`*`). The masked result should:

- Preserve the original number's length and formatting;
- Expose only the last four digits for identification.

**Example:**

- Input: `"My card is 1234-5678-9012-3456"`;
- Output: `"My card is ****-****-****-3456"`.

Use Python's `re` module to implement this solution.


import unittest
import user_code
import ast
import re   
import unittest
import importlib
import io
from contextlib import redirect_stdout

class TestTask(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_mask_simple_hyphenated(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "My card is 1234-5678-9012-3456"
        expected = "My card is ****-****-****-3456"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Correctly masks hyphen-separated credit card number.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

    def test_mask_simple_spaced(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Card: 1234 5678 9012 3456"
        expected = "Card: **** **** **** 3456"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Correctly masks space-separated credit card number.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

    def test_mask_nospaces(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "CC: 1234567890123456 and 6543210987654321"
        expected = "CC: ************3456 and ************4321"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Correctly masks continuous 16-digit credit card numbers.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

    def test_mask_multiple_formats(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "1: 1111-2222-3333-4444, 2: 5555 6666 7777 8888, 3: 9999888877776666"
        expected = "1: ****-****-****-4444, 2: **** **** **** 8888, 3: ************6666"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Correctly masks multiple credit card numbers in various formats.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

    def test_partial_digits_not_masked(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Not a card: 1234-5678-9012"
        expected = "Not a card: 1234-5678-9012"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Does not mask numbers that are not 16 digits.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

    def test_mixed_separators(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Card: 1234-5678 9012-3456"
        expected = "Card: ****-**** ****-3456"
        result = user_code.mask_credit_card_numbers(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            result == expected,
            "Correctly masks credit card numbers with mixed separators.",
            f"Expected: '{expected}', got: '{result}'",
        )

def _dynamic_test(test_case, condition, success_message, failure_message):
    if condition:
        test_case._testMethodName = success_message
        test_case.assertTrue(True, success_message)
    else:
        test_case._testMethodName = failure_message
        test_case.fail(failure_message)

def normalize_text(text):
    text = text.lower()
    text = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", text)
    text = re.sub(r"\s*([,:?])\s*", r"\1 ", text)
    return text.strip()

def change_var(code: str, var_name: str, value: str) -> str:
    tree = ast.parse(code)
    lines = code.splitlines()
    for i, node in enumerate(tree.body):
        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
            for target in node.targets:
                if isinstance(target, ast.Name) and target.id == var_name:
                    start_line = node.lineno - 1
                    line = lines[start_line]
                    indent = ' ' * (len(line) - len(line.lstrip()))
                    lines[start_line] = f"{indent}{var_name} = {value}"
                    next_line = len(lines)
                    for next_node in tree.body[i+1:]:
                        if hasattr(next_node, 'lineno'):
                            next_line = next_node.lineno - 1
                            break
                    if next_line > start_line + 1:
                        lines[start_line+1:next_line] = []
                    
                    return '\\n'.join(lines)
    return code

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()


test_main.py

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