Summary
With your decrypt.py file, you can now decode any secret message that uses the English alphabet. Your decoded messages will be in all lowercase, but that shouldn't take away from the meaning behind them.
Special thanks to Audrey St. John from Mount Holyoke College for the inspiration for this lesson!
Tip
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Other challenges for your decrypt code
As an added challenge, you can explore how to:
- Maintain casing for each letter throughout the decoding process.
- Create a function to read in an entire message without having to print each word individually.
- Modify your decoder to include numbers.
Discover the next coding challenge
Now that you've decoded your first secret message, the natural next step is to determine what your super sleuth character is! In the next module in this learning path, you'll create a test to determine your superpower with Python and Visual Studio Code.
Dive deeper into Python
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