NameError: name 'maketrans' is not defined, pythonchallenge

Guilherme Polo ggpolo at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 14:50:37 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:11 PM, cirfu <circularfunc at yahoo.se> wrote:
> from string import maketrans
>
> ok but how can i write:
> pattern = maketrans('A-XY-Za-xy-z', 'C-ZA-Bc-za-b')
> pattern = maketrans('A-Za-z', 'C-Bc-b')
> none works....

maketrans doesn't work like that, you would need something like this:

sfrom = string.uppercase + string.lowercase
sto = string.uppercase[2:] + string.uppercase[:2] +
string.lowercase[2:] + string.lowercase[:2]
table = string.maketrans(sfrom, sto)

print string.translate(phrase, table)

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