my Vigenere cipher works perfectly for encryption but I just need to fix this problem for decryption where I am told, after running the program, that the string index is out of range. Could someone please let me know what i need to change it to, I would be extremely grateful if you could.
edit: I have changed the part of the code that was causing the string index problem but now, when processing decryption, the output is a blank line with 'None' beneath it and no error.
edit: ord(_key_text[letters%len(_key_text)]) i needed to replace _key_text with _key_phrase on this side of the equation in decrypt.
#encryption
def encrypt():
crypt = ''
key_phrase = raw_input("Please enter a key phrase to encrypt by: ")
key_phrase = key_phrase.upper()
key_text = raw_input("Please enter a piece of text to encrypt: ")
key_text = key_text.upper()
if len(key_text) == 0:
print("Key must be of length 1 or more."); exit()
if not key_text.isalpha() or not key_phrase.isalpha():
print("Both text and key must be composed of letters only."); exit()
for letters in range(0, len(key_text)):
new = ord(key_text[letters]) + ord(key_text[letters%len(key_text)]) - 65
if new > 90:
new -= 26
crypt += chr(new)
print crypt
#decryption
def decrypt():
decrypt = ''
_key_phrase = raw_input("Please enter a key phrase to encrypt by: ")
_key_phrase = _key_phrase.upper()
_key_text = raw_input("Please enter a piece of text to encrypt: ")
_key_text = _key_text.upper()
if len(_key_text) == 0:
print("Key must be of length 1 or more."); exit()
if not _key_text.isalpha() or not _key_phrase.isalpha():
print("Both text and key must be composed of letters only."); exit()
for letters in range(0, len(_key_text)):
new = ord(_key_text[letters]) - ord(_key_text[letters%len(_key_text)]) + 65
if new < 65:
new += 26
decrypt == chr(new)
print decrypt
#asking the user to enter a or b for en/decryption and whether they wish to continue
choice = raw_input("Please enter either 'a' for encryption or 'b' for decryption: ")
if choice == 'a':
print encrypt()
else:
print decrypt()