from __future__ import print_function import os import string import argparse try: maketrans = string.maketrans # python2 except AttributeError: maketrans = str.maketrans # python3 def caesar_cipher(string_: str, offset: int, decode: bool, file_: string) -> None: """ caesar Cipher implementation, reads file or string. Also decodes. Default implementation is ROT13 encoding. To decode, specify the same offset you used to encode and your ciphertext / file. :param string_: string to encode / decode :param offset: # of chars to rotate by :param decode: decode instead of encode :param file_: file to read in then encode/decode """ if file_ and os.path.exists(file_): with open(file_, 'r') as f: string_ = f.read() if decode: offset *= -1 lower_offset_alphabet = string.ascii_lowercase[offset:] + string.ascii_lowercase[:offset] lower_translation_table = maketrans(string.ascii_lowercase, lower_offset_alphabet) upper_offset_alphabet = string.ascii_uppercase[offset:] + string.ascii_uppercase[:offset] upper_translation_table = maketrans(string.ascii_uppercase, upper_offset_alphabet) lower_converted = string_.translate(lower_translation_table) final_converted = lower_converted.translate(upper_translation_table) if file_: extension = 'dec' if decode else 'enc' with open("{}.{}".format(file_, extension), 'w') as f: print(final_converted, file=f) else: print(final_converted) def check_offset_range(value: int) -> int: """ Validates that value is in the allowable range. :param value: integer to validate :return: valid integer :raises: argparse.ArgumentTypeError """ value = int(value) if value < -25 or value > 25: raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("{} is an invalid offset".format(value)) return value if __name__ == '__main__': parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Simple caesar Cipher [En,De]coder") parser.add_argument('-d', '--decode', action='store_true', dest='decode', help='decode ciphertext (offset should equal what was used to encode)', default=False) parser.add_argument('-o', '--offset', dest='offset', default=13, type=check_offset_range, help='number of characters to shift') group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True) group.add_argument('-f', '--file', dest='file', help='file to encode', default=None) group.add_argument('-s', '--string', dest='string', help='string to encode', default=None) args = parser.parse_args() caesar_cipher(args.string, args.offset, args.decode, args.file)