Simple Crypto Implementation | Dataford Interview Questions

Implement a Caesar cipher.

Asked in the onsite coding stage. Implement caesar_cipher(text, shift), returning a new string where each ASCII letter is shifted forward by shift positions, wrapping within A-Z or a-z. Preserve letter case and leave digits, spaces, and punctuation unchanged. Negative and oversized shifts are valid.

Contract

Input: a string text and integer shift.
Output: the transformed string.

Constraints

0 <= len(text) <= 1000
shift is an integer
text contains ASCII characters

Function Signature

def caesar_cipher(text, shift):

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