Function cipher

Misc/Caesar_Cipher_Encryptor/solution2.py:17–39

this function ciphers a string using the caesar's cipher method string: the message to cipher key: the number of times to shift the letters in the alphabet it returns the ciphered string

(string, key)

def cipher(string, key):
    """
    this function ciphers a string using the caesar's cipher method
    string: the message to cipher
    key: the number of times to shift the letters in the alphabet
    it returns the ciphered string"""

    nletters = shift(letters, key)

    def cipher_word(string):
        msg = []

        for i in string:
            index = letters.index(i)
            i = nletters[index]
            msg.append(i)

        return "".join(msg)

    sentence = string.split(" ")
    nsentence = list(map(cipher_word, sentence))

    return " ".join(nsentence)


if __name__ == "__main__":