[Tutor] Simple ROT-13 Script

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

Javier JJ wrote:
> And the reason that it wont' work on other than
> ASCII.- strings ??
> 
>     I mean:
> 
>  >>> s = "asasas"
>  >>> s.encode("rot13")
> 'nfnfnf'
>  >>> type(s)
> <type 'str'>
> 
>  >>> s = "aaañññaaaaaaaa"
>  >>> s
> 'aaa\xf1\xf1\xf1aaaaaaaa'
>  >>> type(s)
> <type 'str'>
>  >>> s.encode("rot13")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\encodings\rot_13.py", line
> 18, in encode
>     return
> codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
> 0xf1 in position 3: 
> ordinal not in range(128)
>  >>>
> 
> ¿¿¿?????
> 
>     Thanks a lot...
> 
>        Javier Jarava

What would you expect that to be encoded as? There's
no a with a ~ over it. rot13 is only made to work with
ASCII. If you wanted the accent marks to just be
removed, you might want to define your own rot13
function.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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