noob doesn't know whats wrong

[awsomejoe23]

Hey guys I've started my very first program ever, lol yay.
Anyways, of course I'm having a problem (never fails).
I am trying to make a program that takes a word, and ceaser encodes it, or shifts it's alphibet place. Hopefully you will understand from the program. I haven't started on the undoing part, as for some reason the code is not responding. I don't get an error message, and it does not print "test" in the shell.
Heres the code
print "test"
letters = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z',1 ,2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
word = ("hello")
len(word) = var_1
var_2 = 0
d = []
encoded= []
var_4 = 0
while var_2 < (var_1 + 1):
letters.index(word[var_2]) = var_3
var_3 + 5 = x
d.append(x)
var_2 = var_2 + 1
while var_4 < (var_1 + 1):
mid.append(letters[d[var_4]])
var_4 = var_4 + 1
encoded = "".join(mid)
print encoded


Please help understand what is wrong, as I'm very new to the language, and I've only had about five nights to study it so far.

Thanks,

Joe

[ghostdog74]

Hey guys I've started my very first program ever, lol yay.
Anyways, of course I'm having a problem (never fails).
I am trying to make a program that takes a word, and ceaser encodes it, or shifts it's alphibet place. Hopefully you will understand from the program. I haven't started on the undoing part, as for some reason the code is not responding. I don't get an error message, and it does not print "test" in the shell.
Heres the code
print "test"
letters = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z',1 ,2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
word = ("hello")
len(word) = var_1
var_2 = 0
d = []
encoded= []
var_4 = 0
while var_2 < (var_1 + 1):
letters.index(word[var_2]) = var_3
var_3 + 5 = x
d.append(x)
var_2 = var_2 + 1
while var_4 < (var_1 + 1):
mid.append(letters[d[var_4]])
var_4 = var_4 + 1
encoded = "".join(mid)
print encoded


Please help understand what is wrong, as I'm very new to the language, and I've only had about five nights to study it so far.

Thanks,

Joe

did you really run your code using the Python interpreter? If you have, you will get errors, i am sure of that. Your LHS and RHS of your assignment is messed up.

len(word) = var_1

should be

var_1 = len(word)

similarly for letters.index(word[var_2]) = var_3
and var_3 + 5 = x
Fix them and then run your code again.

PS. there are better ways to do what you are doing.

[nytrokiss]

you are trying to make an ROT 13 cypher! Have you you can bunch your code a little by writing by makes statements like alpha = [A-z] etc..