Day 6: Caesar Cipher Complete
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Today, I refactored the Caesar Cipher to completeness.
alphabet = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
direction = input("Type 'encode' to encrypt, type 'decode' to decrypt:\n")
text = input("Type your message:\n").lower()
shift = int(input("Type the shift number:\n"))
def caesar(text, shift, direction):
new_text = []
if direction == 'decode':
shift *= -1
for letter in text:
index = alphabet.index(letter)
new_position = (index + shift) % len(alphabet)
new_text.append(alphabet[new_position])
print(''.join(new_text))
caesar(text, shift, direction)
All the pieces are incorporated into this one function that can either encode or decode.
Tomorrow, I'll start looking at Dictionaries.
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