Incrementing letters

[Michael]

Hi,
I've got a string s, and i want to shift all the letters up by one, eg a->b,
b->c ........ z->a
In c++ i can do this quite simply with

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

but i can't work out how to do this this in python??

Regards

Michael

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 13:31 schrieb Michael:

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

if C == "z":
C = "a"
else:
C = chr(ord(C)+1)

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[Wolfram Kraus]

Heiko Wundram wrote:

Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2005 13:31 schrieb Michael:

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

if C == "z":
C = "a"
else:
C = chr(ord(C)+1)

According to the OP's problem (with the assumption that only characters
from a-z are given) he might even try a lil LC:

s = "shiftthis"
''.join([chr(((ord(x)-ord('a')+1)%26)+ord('a')) for x in s])

'tijguuijt'
HTH,
Wolfram

[Duncan Booth]

Michael wrote:

Hi,
I've got a string s, and i want to shift all the letters up by one, eg
a->b, b->c ........ z->a
In c++ i can do this quite simply with

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

but i can't work out how to do this this in python??

import string
upone = string.maketrans( 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ',
'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZA') string.translate("I've got a string s....", upone) "J'wf hpu b tusjoh t...."

Note the difference though: the Python code does what you said you wanted,
whereas your sample code corrupts punctuation.

[Wolfram Kraus]

Duncan Booth wrote:

Michael wrote:

Hi,
I've got a string s, and i want to shift all the letters up by one, eg
a->b, b->c ........ z->a
In c++ i can do this quite simply with

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

but i can't work out how to do this this in python??

import string
upone = string.maketrans(
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ',
'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZA')
string.translate("I've got a string s....", upone)

"J'wf hpu b tusjoh t...."
Note the difference though: the Python code does what you said you wanted,
whereas your sample code corrupts punctuation.

Wow, that's quite nice. You really learn something new every day :-)
A minor improvement: Use string.ascii_letters as the first parameter for
string.maketrans

Wolfram

[Dan Sommers]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:10:32 +0200,
Wolfram Kraus <kr***@hagen-partner.de> wrote:

Duncan Booth wrote:

> import string
> upone = string.maketrans(

'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ',
'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZA')

> string.translate("I've got a string s....", upone)

"J'wf hpu b tusjoh t...." Note the difference though: the Python code does what you said you
wanted, whereas your sample code corrupts punctuation.

Wow, that's quite nice. You really learn something new every day :-) A
minor improvement: Use string.ascii_letters as the first parameter for
string.maketrans

And use string.ascii_letters[ 1 : ] + string.ascii_letters[ 0 ] for the
second parameter to string.maketrans.

Regards,
Dan

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<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>

[Simon Brunning]

On 5/27/05, Michael <sl***********@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I've got a string s, and i want to shift all the letters up by one, eg a->b,
b->c ........ z->a
In c++ i can do this quite simply with

if(C == 'z') C='a';
else C++;

but i can't work out how to do this this in python??

Here's one that works on multiple character strings, with carrying.
Rather silly, really.

<http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001787.html>

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Cheers,
Simon B,
si***@brunningonline.net,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/

[Duncan Booth]

Dan Sommers wrote:

Wolfram Kraus <kr***@hagen-partner.de> wrote:

Duncan Booth wrote:

>> import string
>> upone = string.maketrans(
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW XYZ',
'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZA')

>> string.translate("I've got a string s....", upone) "J'wf hpu b tusjoh t...." Note the difference though: the Python code does what you said you
wanted, whereas your sample code corrupts punctuation.

Wow, that's quite nice. You really learn something new every day :-) A
minor improvement: Use string.ascii_letters as the first parameter for
string.maketrans

Yes, my first attempt at responding did that, but I changed it because that
makes the assumption that string.ascii_letters is in a specific order (did
you know that lowercase came first and uppercase second without checking?)

And use string.ascii_letters[ 1 : ] + string.ascii_letters[ 0 ] for the
second parameter to string.maketrans.

Bzzt. Wrong answer. Look closely at the middle of the string.

I did have:

upone = string.maketrans(string.ascii_letters,

'z'+string.ascii_lowercase[:-1] +
'Z' + string.ascii_uppercase[:-1])

but as I said, that makes too many assumptions for my liking about the
contents of those variables.

[Rocco Moretti]

Dan Sommers wrote:

On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:10:32 +0200,
Wolfram Kraus <kr***@hagen-partner.de> wrote:

Duncan Booth wrote:

>>import string
>>upone = string.maketrans(

'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYZ',
'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU VWXYZA')
>>string.translate("I've got a string s....", upone)

Wow, that's quite nice. You really learn something new every day :-) A
minor improvement: Use string.ascii_letters as the first parameter for
string.maketrans

And use string.ascii_letters[ 1 : ] + string.ascii_letters[ 0 ] for the
second parameter to string.maketrans.

Not quite:

string.ascii_letters[ 1 : ] + string.ascii_letters[ 0 ]

'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZa'

i.e. you get 'z' -> 'A' and 'Z' -> 'a'

Another issue is locale settings and special characters - what should be
done with accented letters? Preserve letter, or shift and loose accent?

[Dan Sommers]

On 27 May 2005 10:52:36 -0400,
Dan Sommers <[e-mail]> wrote:

And use string.ascii_letters[ 1 : ] + string.ascii_letters[ 0 ] for the
second parameter to string.maketrans.

Oops. Thank you Duncan and Rocco for correcting my mistake.

Regards,
Dan

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