How can I make my Vigenère Cipher ignore spaces in the original message

Question

Im trying to make a Vigenère Cipher but I can\'t seem to find a way to implement a feature that ignores in-putted white spaces when entering the message and then printing the fi

Answer 1

You just need to add an else statement in translateMessage() to add the space to the output like this

def translateMessage(key, message, mode):
    translated = ""

    keyIndex = 0
    key = key.upper()

    for symbol in message:
        xyz = alphabet.find(symbol.upper())
        if xyz != -1:
            if mode == 'encrypt' or 'e':
                xyz += alphabet.find(key[keyIndex]) + 1
            elif mode == 'decrypt' or 'd':
                xyz -= alphabet.find(key[keyIndex]) + 1

            xyz %= len(alphabet)

            if symbol.isupper():
                translated += alphabet[xyz]
            elif symbol.islower():
                translated += alphabet[xyz].lower()

            keyIndex += 1
            if keyIndex == len(key):
                keyIndex = 0
        else : translated += symbol #this will add space as it is

    return translated