Smithy Code
Fredrik Lundh | April 2006 | Originally posted to online.effbot.org
$ more smithy_code.py from string import uppercase as alphabet from itertools import izip, cycle import sys smithy_code = "JAEIEXTOSTGPSACGREAMQWFKADPMQZVZ" def fib(n): # from the python tutorial a, b = 0, 1 while b < n: yield b a, b = b, a+b def decode(code): for c, d in izip(code, cycle(fib(len(alphabet)))): yield alphabet[(alphabet.index(c) + d - 1) % len(alphabet)] sys.stdout.writelines(decode(smithy_code)) $ python smithy_code.py JAFKIEFISTHRWHOAREBOUDREADQOUGHT