""" Convert a string of characters to a sequence of numbers corresponding to the character's position in the alphabet. https://www.dcode.fr/letter-number-cipher http://bestcodes.weebly.com/a1z26.html """ def encode(plain: str) -> list: """ >>> encode("myname") [13, 25, 14, 1, 13, 5] """ return [ord(elem) - 96 for elem in plain] def decode(encoded: list) -> str: """ >>> decode([13, 25, 14, 1, 13, 5]) 'myname' """ return "".join(chr(elem + 96) for elem in encoded) def main(): encoded = encode(input("->").strip().lower()) print("Encoded: ", encoded) print("Decoded:", decode(encoded)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()