Dan wrote: > On 22 nov, 22:59, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> processes (Vigenère) >>> >> So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication >> has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by >> minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you >> may have heard: a will that could be read (in part) as either "a chacun >> d'eux million francs" or "a chacun deux million francs" with the >> remainder to a 3rd party. >> >> > of course. > My purpose is not doing something realistic on a cryptographic view. > It's for learning rudiments of programming. > In fact, coding characters is a kind of cryptography I mean, sometimes, > when friends can't read an email because of the characters used... > > I wanted to strip off accents because I use the frequences of the > charactacters. If I only have 26 char, it's more easy to analyse (the > text can be shorter for example) > > Try this:
from_characters = '\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xcf\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xe0\xe1\xe2\xe3\xe4\xe5\xe6\xec\xed\xee\xef\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5\xf6\xf8\xf9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xff\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb' to_characters = 'AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaaiiiionoooooouuuuyyceeee' translation_table = string.maketrans (from_characters, to_characters) translated_string = string.translate (original_string, translation_table) Frederic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
