#!/usr/bin/env python import string def rot13(s): """Implement the rot-13 encoding function: "rotate" each letter by the letter that's 13 steps from it (wrapping from z to a) """ return s.translate( str.maketrans( string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase, string.ascii_uppercase[13:] + string.ascii_uppercase[:13] + string.ascii_lowercase[13:] + string.ascii_lowercase[:13] ) ) if __name__ == "__main__": """Peform line-by-line rot-13 encoding on any files listed on our command line or act as a standard UNIX filter (if no arguments specified). """ import fileinput for line in fileinput.input(): print(rot13(line), end="")