I need to create a code for Caesar Cipher. I need to use a for loop to examine every character of text, find shifted character using ALPHABET, key, and String functions, and add this to the end of "encipheredTextSoFar". Need help, not finished but I'm stuck.
EDIT:
I finally got it and this is my final code:
def circularShift(text, key):
text = text.upper()
cipher = ""
for letter in text:
shifted = ord(letter) + key
if shifted < 65:
shifted += 26
if shifted > 90:
shifted -= 26
cipher += chr(shifted)
return cipher
print (circularShift("MOLLOY", 3))
print (circularShift("PROORB", -3))
# setting status default value to 'y'
status = 'y'
# started a while loop until status will change from 'y' to 'n'
while status == 'y':
# requesting which word to cipher.
word = str(raw_input("Word: "))
# how many position to shift each letter
shift = int(input("Shift: "))
# added new line to have pretty output
print
# declaring cipher variable to be of type list
cipher = list()
# iterating trough each character in word
for item in word:
# translanting each characher in word to new character
# and appending it to cipher list
cipher.append(chr(ord(item)+shift))
# printing word
print word
# printing ciphered word
print ''.join(cipher)
print
# do We need to cipher another word? yes or no?
status = raw_input("Repeat? [y|n]: ")
print
>>>
Word: HelLo
Shift: 1
HelLo
IfmMp
Repeat? [y|n]: y
Word: AbCdEF
Shift: 2
AbCdEF
CdEfGH
Repeat? [y|n]: y
Word: abc
Shift: -1
abc
`ab
Repeat? [y|n]: y
Word: 456GHh
Shift: -2
456GHh
234EFf
Repeat? [y|n]: n
>>>