I am doing a mini project on Caesar cipher, I found one program but can't understand the 29th line "key = -key". Please help me.
# Caesar Cipher
MAX_KEY_SIZE = 26
def getMode():
print('Do you wish to encrypt or decrypt a message?')
print("'e' for encrypt and 'd' for decrypt")
while True:
mode = input().lower()
if mode in 'encrypt e decrypt d'.split():
return mode
else:
print('Enter either "encrypt" or "e" or "decrypt" or "d".')
def getMessage():
print('Enter your message:')
return input()
def getKey():
key = 0
while True:
print('Enter the key number (1-%s)' % (MAX_KEY_SIZE))
key = int(input())
if (key >= 1 and key <= MAX_KEY_SIZE):
return key
def getTranslatedMessage(mode, message, key):
if mode[0] == 'd':
key = -key
translated = ''
for symbol in message:
if symbol.isalpha():
num = ord(symbol)
num += key
if symbol.isupper():
if num > ord('Z'):
num -= 26
elif num < ord('A'):
num += 26
elif symbol.islower():
if num > ord('z'):
num -= 26
elif num < ord('a'):
num += 26
translated += chr(num)
else:
translated += symbol
return translated
mode = getMode()
message = getMessage()
key = getKey()
print('Your translated text is:')
print(getTranslatedMessage(mode, message, key))
