Changing characters from a python message

Question

I want to make a program that encrypts a message by the polar Zenit method, which consists of exchanging these letters among themselves, changing the text without the use of accents. I can already change the letters of the first group (Zenit) to those of the second group (polar), and scramble a little the text, but not the other way around because if I just reverse what I already wrote the same input message will be returned. I imagine you can use lists or dictionaries in a better way, but I don’t know how.

A summary of what I have so far:

texto = input("Digite um texto: ")
lista_z = ['z', 'e', 'n', 'i', 't']

for z in lista_z:
    texto = texto.replace('z', 'p')

for e in lista_z:
    texto = texto.replace('e', 'o')

for n in lista_z:
    texto = texto.replace('n', 'l')

for i in lista_z:
    texto = texto.replace('i', 'a')

for t in lista_z:
    texto = texto.replace('t', 'r')

print(texto)

I’m starting now and I really want this little help to find a solution, from now on thank you.

Answer 1

Your for is running through the lista_z but does nothing pq Voce does not use his variable for anything.

to understand how the for

lista_z=['z','p','x','c','v']

for z in lista_z:
     print(z)

this way will print each item on the list, quite different from what you were doing.

another thing is to look at the functions that the string class has. that link can help you understand what a string is.

this is to understand first how to go through a list item by item.

in its code can be applied as follows, I used dictionary, but has the same idea in the for to browse the list

texto = input("Digite um texto: ") 
dic_z = {'z':'p', 'e':'o', 'n':'l', 'i':'a', 't':'r'}

for z in dic_z: 
     texto = texto.replace(z, dic[z])