Python - Caeser Cipher Not Giving Right Output

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On Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:16:50 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
> dtran.ru at gmail.com Wrote in message:
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> > Hello good people I am working on a caeser cipher program for class. However, I ran into a problem with my outputs. Up to a certain point for example:
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> > 1. two('y', 'z')
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> > Would give a '\x92' output instead of a 'x' output.
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> > Currently this is my code so far:
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> > def chartonum(ch):
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> >     return ord(ch) - 97 
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> > def numtochar(n):
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> >     return chr(n + 97) 
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> > def two(c1 , c2):
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> >     c1 = chartonum(c1)
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> >     c2 = chartonum(c2)
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> >     return numtochar(c1 + c2 %26)
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> You're missing some parentheses in that line. To test your
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>  understanding,  try picking some numbers for c1 and c2. Display
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>  c1 + c2 % 26, and see if the result is always between 0 and
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>  25.
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> Or look up the term precedence in your textbook.
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> > I am thinking I have messed up on my mod 26, however, I am at a lost where I might have went wrong in that. Any help would be appreciated.
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> DaveA

Thanks for your input Dave. Would the line be:

return numtochar(c1 + c2 %26) 

c1 and c2 are lower-case letters. And I was wondering how I would add the partenthesis because I tried:

return numtochar(c1 + c2 (%26)) and it gave me an error.