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+{
+  "authors": [
+    "betegelse"
+  ],
+  "contributors": [
+    "behrtam",
+    "cmccandless",
+    "Dog",
+    "ikhadykin",
+    "jgomo3",
+    "kytrinyx",
+    "N-Parsons",
+    "parinporecha",
+    "pheanex",
+    "sjakobi",
+    "thomasjpfan",
+    "tqa236"
+  ],
+  "files": {
+    "solution": [
+      "atbash_cipher.py"
+    ],
+    "test": [
+      "atbash_cipher_test.py"
+    ],
+    "example": [
+      ".meta/example.py"
+    ]
+  },
+  "blurb": "Create an implementation of the Atbash cipher, an ancient encryption system created in the Middle East.",
+  "source": "Wikipedia",
+  "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash"
+}
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+{"track":"python","exercise":"atbash-cipher","id":"888b453465e64f5d91aea849caf4077c","url":"https://exercism.org/tracks/python/exercises/atbash-cipher","handle":"myFirstCode","is_requester":true,"auto_approve":false}
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+# Help
+
+## Running the tests
+
+We use [pytest][pytest: Getting Started Guide] as our website test runner.
+You will need to install `pytest` on your development machine if you want to run tests for the Python track locally.
+You should also install the following `pytest` plugins:
+
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+
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+
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+
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+$ cd {path/to/exercise-folder-location}
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+
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+
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+
+### Common options
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+
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+```
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+[pytest]
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+[pytest.ini]: https://github.com/exercism/python/blob/main/pytest.ini
+[pytest: configuration file formats]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/customize.html#configuration-file-formats
+[pytest: marking test functions with attributes]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/mark.html#raising-errors-on-unknown-marks
+[pytest: working with custom markers]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/example/markers.html#working-with-custom-markers
+
+## Submitting your solution
+
+You can submit your solution using the `exercism submit atbash_cipher.py` command.
+This command will upload your solution to the Exercism website and print the solution page's URL.
+
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+
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+# Atbash Cipher
+
+Welcome to Atbash Cipher on Exercism's Python Track.
+If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Create an implementation of the Atbash cipher, an ancient encryption system created in the Middle East.
+
+The Atbash cipher is a simple substitution cipher that relies on transposing all the letters in the alphabet such that the resulting alphabet is backwards.
+The first letter is replaced with the last letter, the second with the second-last, and so on.
+
+An Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows:
+
+```text
+Plain:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
+Cipher: zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
+```
+
+It is a very weak cipher because it only has one possible key, and it is a simple mono-alphabetic substitution cipher.
+However, this may not have been an issue in the cipher's time.
+
+Ciphertext is written out in groups of fixed length, the traditional group size being 5 letters, leaving numbers unchanged, and punctuation is excluded.
+This is to make it harder to guess things based on word boundaries.
+All text will be encoded as lowercase letters.
+
+## Examples
+
+- Encoding `test` gives `gvhg`
+- Encoding `x123 yes` gives `c123b vh`
+- Decoding `gvhg` gives `test`
+- Decoding `gsvjf rxpyi ldmul cqfnk hlevi gsvoz abwlt` gives `thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog`
+
+## Source
+
+### Created by
+
+- @betegelse
+
+### Contributed to by
+
+- @behrtam
+- @cmccandless
+- @Dog
+- @ikhadykin
+- @jgomo3
+- @kytrinyx
+- @N-Parsons
+- @parinporecha
+- @pheanex
+- @sjakobi
+- @thomasjpfan
+- @tqa236
+
+### Based on
+
+Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash
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diff --git a/atbash-cipher/atbash_cipher.py b/atbash-cipher/atbash_cipher.py
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+"""
+This is an implementation of the 'Atbash' cipher, an ancient
+encryption system created in the Middle East.
+"""
+
+import string
+
+alphabet: str = string.ascii_lowercase
+
+
+def encode(plain_text: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Encode text using the Atbash cipher.
+
+    Letters are mirrored in the lowercase Latin alphabet; digits are preserved.
+    Punctuation characters '.,!?' and spaces are removed. The result is grouped
+    into 5-character blocks separated by spaces for readability.
+
+    :param plain_text: Input text to encode.
+    :type plain_text: str
+    :returns: Encoded text (grouped in 5-character blocks when length >= 5).
+    :rtype: str
+    """
+    temp_txt: [str] = [
+        _replace(char) for char in plain_text if char not in ".,!? "
+    ]
+    if len(temp_txt) > 4:
+        step: int = 5
+        i_start: int = 0
+        i_end: int = i_start + step
+        txt: list[str] = []
+        while i_start <= len(temp_txt):
+            tmp: str = "".join(temp_txt[i_start:i_end])
+            if tmp:
+                txt.append(tmp)
+            i_start, i_end = i_end, i_end + step
+        return " ".join(txt)
+    return "".join(temp_txt)
+
+
+def _replace(char: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Apply Atbash mapping to a single character.
+
+    Alphabetic characters are lowercased and mirrored in the alphabet;
+    non-letters are returned unchanged.
+
+    :param char: Character to transform.
+    :type char: str
+    :returns: Transformed character.
+    :rtype: str
+    """
+    if char.lower().isalpha():
+        return alphabet[-(alphabet.index(char.lower()) + 1)]
+    return char
+
+
+def decode(ciphered_text: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Decode an Atbash-encoded string.
+
+    Atbash is symmetric; decoding reuses encoding and removes grouping spaces.
+
+    :param ciphered_text: Encoded text, optionally grouped with spaces.
+    :type ciphered_text: str
+    :returns: Decoded text without grouping spaces.
+    :rtype: str
+    """
+    return encode(ciphered_text).replace(" ", "")
diff --git a/atbash-cipher/atbash_cipher_test.py b/atbash-cipher/atbash_cipher_test.py
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+# pylint: disable=C0301, C0114, C0115, C0116, R0904
+# These tests are auto-generated with test data from:
+# https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/tree/main/exercises/atbash-cipher/canonical-data.json
+# File last updated on 2023-07-20
+
+import unittest
+
+from atbash_cipher import (
+    decode,
+    encode,
+)
+
+
+class AtbashCipherTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_encode_yes(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("yes"), "bvh")
+
+    def test_encode_no(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("no"), "ml")
+
+    def test_encode_omg(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("OMG"), "lnt")
+
+    def test_encode_spaces(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("O M G"), "lnt")
+
+    def test_encode_mindblowingly(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("mindblowingly"), "nrmwy oldrm tob")
+
+    def test_encode_numbers(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("Testing,1 2 3, testing."), "gvhgr mt123 gvhgr mt")
+
+    def test_encode_deep_thought(self):
+        self.assertEqual(encode("Truth is fiction."), "gifgs rhurx grlm")
+
+    def test_encode_all_the_letters(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            encode("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."),
+            "gsvjf rxpyi ldmul cqfnk hlevi gsvoz abwlt",
+        )
+
+    def test_decode_exercism(self):
+        self.assertEqual(decode("vcvix rhn"), "exercism")
+
+    def test_decode_a_sentence(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            decode("zmlyh gzxov rhlug vmzhg vkkrm thglm v"),
+            "anobstacleisoftenasteppingstone",
+        )
+
+    def test_decode_numbers(self):
+        self.assertEqual(decode("gvhgr mt123 gvhgr mt"), "testing123testing")
+
+    def test_decode_all_the_letters(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            decode("gsvjf rxpyi ldmul cqfnk hlevi gsvoz abwlt"),
+            "thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog",
+        )
+
+    def test_decode_with_too_many_spaces(self):
+        self.assertEqual(decode("vc vix    r hn"), "exercism")
+
+    def test_decode_with_no_spaces(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            decode("zmlyhgzxovrhlugvmzhgvkkrmthglmv"), "anobstacleisoftenasteppingstone"
+        )