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A simple pythonscript to encode ascii text to whitespace and back
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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
import sys | |
spaces = " \u180e\u2000\u2001\u2002\u2003\u2004\u2005\u2006\u2007\u2008\u2009\u200a\u202f\u205f\u3000" | |
def encode(s): | |
res = "" | |
for c in s: | |
c = ord(c) | |
res += spaces[(c & 0xf0) >> 4] | |
res += spaces[c & 0x0f] | |
return res | |
def decode(ws): | |
res = "" | |
for (a,b) in zip(ws[::2], ws[1::2]): | |
res += chr(spaces.index(a)*16+spaces.index(b)) | |
return res | |
if len(sys.argv) == 1: | |
print("Usage: {} [string_to_encode|string_to_decode]") | |
elif all(c in spaces for c in sys.argv[1]): | |
print('Decoded to "{}"'.format(decode(sys.argv[1]))) | |
else: | |
print("Encoded between [] -> [{}]".format(encode(sys.argv[1]))) |
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