manipulating a string using ord()

[Carlo Gambino]

I'm trying to manipulate strings of user input data, using ord() to assign the decimal value to each character in the string. I can return the values, but need to understand the best way to store the decimal values, manipulate them, and return the new values to a new string.

Any input or suggestions?

[jlm699]

I'm trying to manipulate strings of user input data, using ord() to assign the decimal value to each character in the string. I can return the values, but need to understand the best way to store the decimal values, manipulate them, and return the new values to a new string.

Any input or suggestions?

My suggestion is stop posting so many threads and stick to one....

I don't understand why you would want to do what you're talking about but here's a simple example...

[CODE=python]
>>> t = raw_input("Ente r string: ")
Enter string: abcdef
>>> list = []
>>> for letter in t:
>>> list.append(ord (letter))

>>> list
[97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102]
>>> # Do your data manip. here
>>> list
[102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107]
>>> t2 = ''
>>> for elem in list:
>>> t2 += chr(elem)

>>> t2
'fghijk'[/CODE]

[Carlo Gambino]

Right, thanks! I'm just frustrated because I've been pouring over forums and books for weeks trying to get off the ground with python and I feel like it's more trouble at every turn.

Thanks for the post! Your code helps more than I can express! You've let me see the light, thanks again!

[bvdet]

You can jumble up a string using the string module:[code=Python]import string

s1 = string.ascii_lo wercase+string. digits
s2 = '$qiwsd~52a6-gzjh%f9+30c78x! #*^<>;:|&'
m1 = string.maketran s(s1, s2)
m2 = string.maketran s(s2, s1)
s3 = 'dpeopfgghcf234 8dfjm89gkl'.tra nslate(m1)
s4 = s3.translate(m2 )
print s3
print s4[/code]

>>> whsjhd~~5id*^<| wdag|&~6-
dpeopfgghcf2348 dfjm89gkl
>>>

[Carlo Gambino]

well I'm almost there! I've found my way to the code that gets me (almost) where I want. There is only one small problem I don't seem to understand.

>>>t = raw_input("Enter string: ")
>>>Enter string: aaaaa
>>>list = []
>>>for letter in t:
            list.append(ord(letter))

>>> list
[97, 97, 97, 97, 97]

>>> list2 = []
>>> for i in range(len(list)+1)[1:]:
	     list2.append(list[i-1]+i)

>>>>>> list2
[98, 99, 100, 101, 102]

This is so close to what I want, but the desired output is:

97 98 99 100 101

Thanks again for the help!

[Carlo Gambino]

**Solved**

In case anyone stumbles across curiosity on a smilar subject, here is the code that finally made this work for me:

>>> plaintext = 'aeiou'
>>> list = [ord(letter) for letter in plaintext]
>>> list
[97, 101, 105, 111, 117]
>>> list2 =[list[i-1]+i for i in range(len(list))]
>>> list2
[117, 98, 103, 108, 115]
>>> import string
>>> cyphertext = string.join([chr(c) for c in list2], '')
>>> cyphertext
'ubgls'