On Dec 10, 9:41 pm, Matt_D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good afternoon. > > As a self-tutoring project I am writing a one-time-pad encrypt/decrypt > script. I have completed the encryption portion and am working > currently on the decryption algorithm. My goal is to have the encrypt > and decrypt be individual modules vice two parts of the same. > > My problem, or perhaps more accurately, question, lies in importing a > function from the otp_encrypt script. Here is the function I am > attempting to call: > > def get_key(ptext): > """Convert one-time-pad to uppercase, and strip spaces. On final > line slice pad to match length of plain text. (OTP will not work if > len(pad) != len(plaintext)""" > ptext = upper_case(ptext) > otp = # key removed just due to sheer length > otp = string.upper(otp) > new = "" > for letter in otp: > if letter in string.uppercase: > new += letter > return new[:len(ptext)] > > The parameter of get_key is sys.argv[1]. Now I understand why I'm > getting the errors I'm getting (invalid syntax if I include () or > ([parameter], or an IndexError if I don't include those), but my > question is, is it feasible to import a function from a module when > that function requires a parameter from elsewhere in the imported > module?
"requires a parameter from elsewhere in the imported module" is a concept I don't understand. Here is what I think that you need to do in your main script: import sys import otp_encrypt the_key = opt_encrypt.get_key(sys.argv[1]) If that isn't what you want, you'll need to explain the sentence that starts "Now I understand", with examples of what you have tried. BTW, how is the uppercase function different from string.upper, and why aren't you using string methods e.g. otp = otp.upper() ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
