Convert to binary and convert back to strings

Steven D'Aprano steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au
Thu Feb 22 04:56:30 EST 2007


On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:46:19 -0800, Harlin Seritt wrote:

>> WARNING: THIS IS NOT A STRONG ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM.  It is just a
>> nuisance for someone that really wants to decrypt the string. But
>> it might work for your application.
>>
>> -Larry
> 
> Thanks Larry! I was looking for something more beautiful but what the
> hey, it works!


Is this beautiful enough?


>>> s = "Python"
>>> u = unicode(s, "ascii")
>>> u
u'Python'
>>> u.encode('rot13')
'Clguba'


For extra security, you can encode the string with rot13 twice.



-- 
Steven.




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