How to perform a Caesar cipher with multiple shifts
For example, if I applied 4 shifts to the "breakzone", what it would look like:
"b" will be shifted by 2 characters "r" will be shifted by 3 characters "e" will be shifted by 4 characters "a" will be shifted by 5 characters and then we will return to the initial shift amount at 2: "k" will be shifted by 2 symbol etc ...
here is what I have so far:
statement = input("Enter string: ")
multiple_shifts = input(int("Enter shift amounts: "))
def caesar(word,multiple_shifts):
for ch in statement:
if ch = statement[0]:
I know this isn't much, but I am definitely lost and any help is appreciated. Without asking you to "write your own code", just point me in the right direction, so I would really appreciate any knowledge of this topic.
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Here's a very rough implementation:
import sys
def caesar(word, shifts):
word_list = list(word.lower())
result = []
s = 0
for c in word_list:
next_ord = ord(c) + s + 2
if next_ord > 122:
next_ord = 97
result.append(chr(next_ord))
s = (s + 1) % shifts
return "".join(result)
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(caesar("breakzone", 4))
If you're wondering what with 122
and 97
, these are the lowercase Unicode values z
and a
. You can easily modify the above to support full Unicode (like being able to encode H3ll0
, for example). A Unicode diagram can be found here that might help you.
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