Answer to Question #198373 in Python for meghana

Question

Given a string, write a program to print a secret message that replaces characters with numbers 'a' with 1, 'b' with 2, ..., 'z' with 26 where characters are separated by '-'.

Note: You need to replace both uppercase and lowercase characters. You can ignore replacing all characters that are not letters.

abcdefghij12345678910

klmnopqr1112131415161718

stuvwxyz1920212223242526

Answer 1

key = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'


def shifr(sen:str, key:str):


	res = ''
	for ch in sen:
		if ch == ' ':
			res = res[:-1] + ch 
			continue
		if ch.lower() in key:
			res += str(key.index(ch.lower()) + 1)
		else:
			res += ch
		res += '-'
	return res[:-1]




while True:
	print(shifr(input(), key))