I'm learning python and I decided to embark on a little project of my own, I've written a program that will convert back and forth between ASCII and plain text. It converts "to" ASCII just fine, but for some reason I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong in my loop that converts "from" ASCII. Can somebody look over this and correct that function and explain what exactly you did?
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Your code is correct - you're probably using the wrong input. In your function to convert to ASCII, you're outputting a space-separated list of ints. If you input that ("104 101 108 108 111") back into your function to decode to text, it will fail. The input() function that your decode function uses to read input evaluates the command-line input as a python expression, so if you enter "[104, 101, 108, 108, 111]", it should work. If you want to work with the raw string, use the raw_input() that you use in your main function.

Also, pausing for several seconds between menu options isn't very good form in command-line interfaces.

By the way, it's a good idea to copy and paste your code into your post, embedded in [code] tags.

Thanks for the help. I'm a beginning programmer, this is my first language. I'll take out the waiting periods, my logic was to give them time to read one line before another one came up, but printing a blank line would avoid the clutter I don't want and still not keep them waiting. Again, thanks for helping.