Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 11/9/2010 1:29 PM Steven D'Aprano said... I'm pretty sure I tried it, once, but I might be confabulating. Cool -- I learned a new word today! I had to look it up as I thought you were profabulating... :) Emile ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@pyth

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Eike Welk wrote: On Tuesday 09.11.2010 18:36:43 Stefan Behnel wrote: Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? It was probably created on Linux. That would be it. > Python's Distutils crea

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Eike Welk
On Tuesday 09.11.2010 18:36:43 Stefan Behnel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate > > Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? It was probably created on Linux. Python's Distutils create installers for Windows even on L

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
Steven D'Aprano, 09.11.2010 05:01: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate Hmm - why is the Windows installer on that page called "linux-i686"? Stefan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.p

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition > cipher for this course. You

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Pettit
I can suggest that the X should probably be a "D" you may want to check this with your tutor Although as a python noob I don't have the foggiest on how to do this in python, but will keep this for an exercise for if, and when I do. On paper it's pretty simple once you Wikipedia it. On 9 November 2

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Wayne Werner
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo < ncasti...@umail.ucsb.edu> wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher > f

Re: [Tutor] Columnar Transposition Cipher question

2010-11-08 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: That's nice. > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition cipher > for this course