I'm trying to make a "Caesar's Cipher" while using python..this is what I have so far. Could anyone tell me how this is looking? Am I going in the right direction? What am I missing? When I run the program to say for example (josh is cool) I don't get the cipher on the same line. It looks like this when I do main(3)
m
r
v
k
l
v
f
r
r
o
But it puts each letter on a new line. How could I do it so that it is on one line?
def main(k):
if k<0 or k>231:
print "complaint"
raise SystemExit
Input = raw_input("Please enter Plaintext to Cipher")
for x in range(len(Input)):
letter=Input[x]
if letter.islower():
x=ord(letter)
x=x+k
if x>122:
x=x-122+97
print chr(x),
if letter.isupper():
x=ord(letter)
x=x+k
if x>90:
x=x-90+65
print chr(x),
I like kaizer.se's answer, but I think I can simplify it using the string.maketrans function:
import string
first = raw_input("Please enter Plaintext to Cipher: ")
k = int(raw_input("Please enter the shift: "))
shifted_lowercase = ascii_lowercase[k:] + ascii_lowercase[:k]
translation_table = maketrans(ascii_lowercase, shifted_lowercase)
print first.translate(translation_table)
This code should work pretty well. It also handles arbitrary offsets, including negative.
phrase = raw_input("Please enter plaintext to Cipher: ")
shift = int(raw_input("Please enter shift: "))
result = ''
for char in phrase:
x = ord(char)
if char.isalpha():
x = x + shift
offset = 65
if char.islower():
offset = 97
while x < offset:
x += 26
while x > offset+25:
x -= 26
result += chr(x)
print result
The other way to do it, with a slightly different cipher, is simply rotate through all characters, upper and lower, or even all ascii > 0x20.
phrase = raw_input("Please enter plaintext to Cipher: ")
shift = int(raw_input("Please enter shift: "))
result = ''
for char in phrase:
x = ord(char)
x = x + shift
while x < 32:
x += 96
while x > 127:
x -= 96
result += chr(x)
print result
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