Basic problem - Syntax error

[chris at onca.catsden.net]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Michael Ellwood wrote:

> Im writing a programme to decrypt a casaer cipher. Im using a while loop
> with a counter, and when the counter exceeds a certain value , the loop
> stops and the alphabet generated is printed eg:
>
> plaintextalphabet="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
> ciphertext="mhily lza zbhl xbpzxbl mvyabuhl hwwpbz jshbkpbz jhljbz kpjabt
> hyjhubt lza ulbayvu"
>
> counter=0
> alphabetpos=0
>
> while counter < 26:
>     cipheralphabet.append(plaintextalphabet[counter:]
> **    counter = counter + 1
>
> print cipheralphabet

You're missing a ) on the line beforehand.


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