Leet Convertor, 1337 [()|\|V3r+()r

# 1337 translator
# Take a string and convert it into 1337
# Code by Paul Spooner
# Released to the public domain

from random import choice

#Uber leet?
#0 to use some normal characters
#1 for all |337 ones
UL = 0

leetChars = {}
leetChars["o"] = ("O","0","()","*")
leetChars["i"] = ("I","1","!","|")
leetChars["z"] = ("Z","2",)
leetChars["e"] = ("E","3",)
leetChars["a"] = ("A","4","^","@")
leetChars["s"] = ("S","5","z","$")
leetChars["q"] = ("Q","6","9")
leetChars["d"] = ("D","6",)
leetChars["t"] = ("T","7","+",)
leetChars["b"] = ("B","8","6","&",)
leetChars["p"] = ("P","9","?")
leetChars["w"] = ("W",r"\/\/",)
leetChars["x"] = ("X",r"><",)
leetChars["h"] = ("H","|-|",)
leetChars["n"] = ("N",r"|\|",)
leetChars["c"] = ("C","[","(",)
leetChars["k"] = ("K","X",r"|<",)
leetChars["v"] = ("V",r"\/",)
leetChars["m"] = ("M",r"|\/|","^^",)
leetChars["l"] = ("L","|","|_",)
leetChars["f"] = ("F","|=",)
leetChars["y"] = ("Y","7","J")
leetChars["u"] = ("U","|_|","O")
leetChars["g"] = ("G","9",)
leetChars["j"] = ("J","5","!")



def leet(s):
    old_string = s.lower()
    old_words = old_string.split()
    new_words = []
    for word in old_words:
        for char, leetz in leetChars.items():
            leetchoice = choice(leetz[UL:])
            word = word.replace(char, leetchoice)
        new_words += [word]
    new_string = " ".join(new_words)
    print(new_string)
    #return new_string