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( 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA') >>> 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list