Shifting characters in a string?

804 · #1 27-Feb-2009, 17:52

I've just started to learn how to use python and I'm trying to define a function in python that could shift each characters in a string with a random number.

I was given a hint that using looping would be helpful to complete this exercise. But I have no clue how to manipulate every character in a string.

Python Code:

def shiftStringBy(s,n) :
   s2 = "" 
   for i in range (len(s)) :
     ord(s[i]) + n

That's as far as I got, but I know its totally incorrect. Can anybody please help me?

crystalattice · #2 27-Feb-2009, 20:40

As I understand it, you want to shift the characters in a string by x numbers to the right, e.g. "abcd" shifted by 2 becomes "cdab". Is this correct?

What is "s2"? You define it as an empty string yet you never use it. Are you using a user input to determine the random value? You don't have anything to receive that input from the user. (However, if you are simply calling the function manually then you're fine).

I don't think you want to be using the ord function. According to the Python documentation, it returns an integer value of the Unicode character.

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