Text Encrypted using Caesar Cipher Formula
Just a little project I had to code for my Python class. You input the text and a distance value (for the cipher) and it encrypts the text and creates a .txt file on your desktop with the encrypted text. It also opens that .txt file and copies the encryption into another newly created .txt file.
Coded this in IDLE and to anyone learning Python I recommend being OCD about syntax and how you format your code (either single quotes all throughout not mixed, indentation, proper variable naming format, etc)
Code:
plainMessage = input('Enter a message: ') #user inputs text
distance = int(input('Enter the distance value: ')) #user inputs distance value
encryptText = ''
for ch in plainMessage: #caesar cipher formula
ordValue = ord(ch)
cipherValue = ordValue + distance
encryptText += chr(cipherValue)
file = open('encrypt.txt', 'w') #cipher text to .txt file
file.write(encryptText)
file.close()
with open('encrypt.txt') as file: #.txt file read/copied to another .txt file
copyText = file.read()
file = open('copyfile.txt', 'w')
file.write(copyText)
file.close()
