Introduction to Programming using Python 1st Edition

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0132747189
ISBN 13: 978-0-13274-718-9

Chapter 13 - Files and Exception Handling - Programming Exercises - Page 472: 13.9

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# 13.9 (Decrypt files) Suppose a file is encrypted using the scheme in Exercise 13.8. # Write a program to decode an encrypted file. Your program should prompt the # user to enter an input filename and an output filename and should save the unencrypted # version of the input file to the output file. infile = input("Enter input filename: ") outfile = input("Enter output filename: ") source = open(infile, 'r') destination = open(outfile, 'w') res = '' data = source.read() for i in range(len(data)): res += chr(ord(data[i]) - 5) destination.write(res) destination.close()
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