Awesome-Python-Scripts/caesar_cipher/caesar.py
2022-10-07 19:59:49 -03:00

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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)