[Tutor] My Program stopped working, can anyone help

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Wed Apr 1 13:00:00 CEST 2009


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Jared White <dukelx2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to produce A Caesar cipher is a simple substitution cipher ,
> that would code For example, if the key value is 2, the word “Sourpuss”
> would be encoded as “Uqwtrwuu
>
> Here is my code: ( but i keep getting a ERROR) It works for me Last week but
> for some reason it isnt work for me right now. ANY REASON WHY PLEASE HELP
>
> # alphabet.py
> # Simple string processing program to generate an encryp text
>
>
> def main():
> print "This program will encode your messages using a Caesar Cipher"
> print
> key = input("Enter the key: ")
> message = raw_input("Enter the message: ")
> codedMessage = ""
> for ch in message:
> codedMessage = codedMessage + chr(ord(ch) + key)
> print "The coded message is:", codedMessage
>
>
> main()

Please be more specific. What input are you giving? What error do you get?

What is the value of chr(ord(ch) + key) when ch is 'z' and key is 10?
Is that what you want?

Kent


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