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Caesar Cipher Python
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# we need 2 helper mappings, from letters to ints and the inverse | |
L2I = dict(zip("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",range(26))) | |
I2L = dict(zip(range(26),"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")) | |
key = 3 | |
plaintext = "DEFEND THE EAST WALL OF THE CASTLE" | |
# encipher | |
ciphertext = "" | |
for c in plaintext.upper(): | |
if c.isalpha(): ciphertext += I2L[ (L2I[c] + key)%26 ] | |
else: ciphertext += c | |
# decipher | |
plaintext2 = "" | |
for c in ciphertext.upper(): | |
if c.isalpha(): plaintext2 += I2L[ (L2I[c] - key)%26 ] | |
else: plaintext2 += c | |
print plaintext | |
print ciphertext | |
print plaintext2 |
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Could you please give me an example of what that code would look like? I'm new to Python and this stuff is kinda out of my league. Thank you.