cipher_placeholder.py

# https://deeplearningcourses.com/c/data-science-natural-language-processing-in-python
# https://www.udemy.com/data-science-natural-language-processing-in-python

# Author: http://lazyprogrammer.me

# Get the data from here:
# https://lazyprogrammer.me/course_files/moby_dick.txt

### encode a message

# this is a random excerpt from Project Gutenberg's
# The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
# https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661

original_message = '''I then lounged down the street and found,
as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down
by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing
down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of
half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information
as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen
other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least
interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.
'''