Shortcut to initialize variables

[Peter Hansen]

Andrew wrote:
> I'm writing a program that will take substitution and transposition
> cipher texts and spit out plain text with no human input. So I suppose
> I'll have dictionaries of digraphs and trigraphs too; for frequency
> analysis. 

 > Do you think this is to heavy of a project to learn the language?

Not at all, provided you're somewhat expert in the domain already, and 
are just using it as a means to help learn Python.

If you are learning both Python and how to break ciphers at the same 
time, I'd personally call it a "little" heavy... ;-)

-Peter