> while x < 26:
> new_alph = alph[1:] + alph[:1]
> print new_alph
> print "\n"
> x += 1
>
> But this has the drawback of not progressing with my
> newly create alphabet, it just returns:
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
The reason that new_alph never changes is that you are calculating
> alph =
["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"]
import string
alph = string.lowercase
> print "\n"
> print alph
> print "\n"
print '\n%s\n' % alph
> x = 1
> while x < 26:
for letter in alph:
> alph.append(alph.pop(0))
>
Quoting Max Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> anyway- I don't like the output which come in the
> form:
> ['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', 'a']
>
>
> What I'd like to do is take my list and turn it into
hi Max,
you can use:
alph = ["a","b", ]
myString = "".join(alph)
print myString
regards,
tanja
On 5/7/05, Max Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I've started writing a suite of tools to help me do
> Crypto puzzles (slowly...) My first snippet of code
> allos me to print out a
Hello-
I've started writing a suite of tools to help me do
Crypto puzzles (slowly...) My first snippet of code
allos me to print out a Caesar shifting alphabet, as I
tend to write them out by hand; which is a waste of
time.
alph =
["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","
