Create caesarcipher.py

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caesarcipher.py

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+#this program is a simple caesar cipher, which encrypts
+#a message by shifting each letter three to the right in the alphabet
+#this will ignore all characters that are not letters
+
+def caesar_encrypt(plaintext):
+    #each letter in plaintext
+    finalstring= ""
+    for letter in plaintext.lower():
+        #get the number value of the letter
+        cipher = (ord(letter)+3)
+        #wraparound
+        #checks letter to see if it's out of range
+        if cipher > 122:
+            cipher -= 26
+            finalstring += chr(cipher)
+        #skips any other characters
+        elif (ord(letter)) in range (97,123):
+            finalstring +=chr(cipher)
+        else: 
+            continue
+    return(finalstring)