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  1. #every lowercase letter [a..z] is replaced with the corresponding one in [z..a]
  2. #every other character (including uppercase letters and punctuation) is left untouched.
  3. # That is, ‘a’ becomes ‘z’, ‘b’ becomes ‘y’, ‘c’ becomes ‘x’, etc. For instance, the word “vmxibkgrlm”, when decoded, would become “encryption”.
  4. #Write a function called answer(s) which takes in a string and returns the deciphered string
  5. from string import ascii_lowercase as alphabet
  6. def answer1(s):
  7. newlist = ''
  8. for element in s:
  9. if element in alphabet:
  10. position = alphabet.index(element)
  11. letter = alphabet[25 - position]
  12. newlist += letter
  13. else:
  14. newlist += element
  15. return ''.join(newlist)
  16.  
  17.  
  18. #test
  19. s = answer1("a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p")
  20. print(s)
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