[Tutor] My Program stopped working, can anyone help

bob gailer bgailer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 21:40:44 CEST 2009


Jared White 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)
1 - I see no indentation. Please fix that and repost.
2 - Also post the traceback that is reporting the error. We are not psychic!
3 - be sure to reply to the list.

> 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()
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