Handling non alphabetic characters

Question

How could this code be enhanced to handle non-alphabetic characters assigning a special value

https://code.sololearn.com/cC2SBRhGO7iD/?ref=app

Answer 1

Izaiah Kay if you enter the help(string) command, python will kindly provide you with all the information about string, including the ASCII – string.digits module of interest, or all characters in general – string.printable...😎

Answer 2

Bob_Li I’ve been cracking my head around this for sometime . I guess i just have to rewrite it in a different way

Answer 3

def encode(s):
return ''.join([f'{ord(x):04}' for x in s])

def decode(s):
res = ''
for n in range(0,len(s),4):
res += chr(int(s[n:n+4]))
return res

txt = input()
print(f'your input: {txt}')
secret = encode(txt)
print(secret)
reveal = decode(secret)
print(reveal)

Answer 4

Bob_Li this is great

Answer 5

The way you encoded it makes it impossible to decode...

Answer 6

maybe zero pad single digits. Then you could decode it by taking two-digit numbers.
As for non-alphabetic characters, you could perhaps just encode the string by converting each letter to their ascii numbers instead? you have to use 3 or 4 digit groups, though. The encoded form would be very long.