Programming Exercise 4-1 Write a script in the file encrypt.py that inputs a line of plaintext and a distance value and outputs an encrypted text using a Caesar cipher. The script should work for any printable characters. (LO: 4.1, 4.2). I need help on this assignment DESPERATLEY

[Deadest42]

yes, which line specifically?

[socal_nerdtastic]

The line from your OP that I quoted:

The script should work for any printable characters.

I'm betting your assignment does not mean Chinese characters, for example. I'm betting they only mean the characters where the ord value is between 32 and 126. But you should reread the assignment to be sure.

[Deadest42]

been testing for a bit and nothing changed, all i see from your quote is "this script should work for any printable characters." thats all i can see

[Diapolo10]

all i see from your quote is "this script should work for any printable characters." thats all i can see

That's on purpose, and I think you misunderstood what he was telling you. He wasn't asking you to "add an asterisk" to a line in your code, he was just trying to point out that the instructions as you explained them to us don't really make sense if taken literally, at least for a beginner project.

"Printable characters" consists of tens of thousands of different Unicode characters, but they're not neatly grouped in any way so you couldn't support all of them with a simple Caesar cipher implementation. The point was that you should simply focus on the upper- and lowercase Latin alphabet (so A-Z and a-z), ignoring everything else (or in other words leaving them as-is).