[maximusthegladiator2006]

encipher( S, n ) --- >
encipher('xyza', 1)
'yzab'
and
decipher( S )
decipher('Bzdrzq bhogdq? H oqdedq Bzdrzq rzkzc.')
'Caesar cipher? I prefer Caesar salad.'

I have to write a program on the above given examples.. and it can be anything.. if the text is entered in upprecase it shold give output in uppercase and same for lowercase.. it shouldn't do anything if number or special characters are used..

I used built in functions ORD and CHR.. I don't know I am unable to establish the connection as I need a helper function..

I would be appreciative if some one can help me.. Thank you

[v0id]

maximusthegladiator2006, on 24 Oct, 2006 - 11:14 AM, said:

encipher( S, n ) --- >
encipher('xyza', 1)
'yzab'
and
decipher( S )
decipher('Bzdrzq bhogdq? H oqdedq Bzdrzq rzkzc.')
'Caesar cipher? I prefer Caesar salad.'

I have to write a program on the above given examples.. and it can be anything.. if the text is entered in upprecase it shold give output in uppercase and same for lowercase.. it shouldn't do anything if number or special characters are used..

I used built in functions ORD and CHR.. I don't know I am unable to establish the connection as I need a helper function..

I would be appreciative if some one can help me.. Thank you

I don't know exactly what you what, is it just some function to convert to caesarciphers and back again?
If it's, I've wrote two simple functions:
encipher(S [, n (= 3)])
decipher(S [, n (= 3)])
They've the default n as three, 'cus that's the original number, Caesar used.

small = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
big   = small.upper()
size  = len(big)-1

def encipher(S, n = 3):
	finale_str = ''
	for c in S:
		if c.islower():
			if (small.find(c)+n)>size:
				c = small[(small.find(c)+n)-(size+1)]
			else:
				c = small[small.find(c)+n]
		elif c.isupper():
			if (big.find(c)+n)>size:
				c = big[(big.find(c)+n)-(size+1)]
			else:
				c = big[big.find(c)+n]
		finale_str += c
	return finale_str

def decipher(S, n = 3):
	finale_str = ''
	for c in S:
		if c.islower():
			if (small.find(c)-n)<0:
				c = small[size-small.find(c)-(n-1)]
			else:
				c = small[small.find(c)-n]
		elif c.isupper():
			if (big.find(c)-n)<0:
				c = big[size-big.find(c)-(n-1)]
			else:
				c = big[big.find(c)-n]
		finale_str += c
	return finale_str

# Encipher examples...
print encipher("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 1)
print encipher("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 2)
print encipher("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")

print encipher("v0id is me!", 1)
print encipher("v0id is me!", 2)
print encipher("v0id is me!")

print "\n"

# Decipher examples...
print decipher("x0kf ku og!", 1)
print decipher("x0kf ku og!", 2)
print decipher("x0kf ku og!")

print "\n"

# Both...
string = "Dream.In.Code!"
print string
print encipher(string)
print decipher(string)
print decipher(encipher(string))
print encipher(decipher(string))