diff --git a/python/ledger/ledger.py b/python/ledger/ledger.py
index ae31bdb..fdbb2e7 100644
--- a/python/ledger/ledger.py
+++ b/python/ledger/ledger.py
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ locales_currency = {
 }
 
 class LedgerEntry(object):
-    def __init__(self, date, description, change):
+    def __init__(self, date, desc
+    6ption, change):
         self.date, self.description, self.change = date, description, change
 
-def create_entry(date, description, change):
-    return LedgerEntry(datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d'), description, change)
+create_entry = lambda date, description, change: LedgerEntry(datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d'), description, change)
 
 def format_entries(currency, locale, entries):
     table = []
diff --git a/python/simple-cipher/simple_cipher.py b/python/simple-cipher/simple_cipher.py
index 15bdf2e..e18956c 100644
--- a/python/simple-cipher/simple_cipher.py
+++ b/python/simple-cipher/simple_cipher.py
@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
-from string import ascii_lowercase as low
-
-class Cipher(object):   
-    def __init__(self, key=None):
-        self.key = key
-        self.shift = 27 - (sum([low.index(char) for char in self.key]) % 25)
-        shifted = low[self.shift:] + low[:self.shift]
-        print(low)
-        print(shifted)
-        self.encode_ = str.maketrans(low, shifted)
-        self.decode_ = str.maketrans(shifted, low)
-
-    def encode(self, text):
-        return text.translate(self.encode_)
-
-    def decode(self, text):
-        return text.translate(self.decode_)
-
-x = list(zip('iamapandabear', 'ldpdsdqgdehdu'))
-x = sorted(dict.fromkeys(x))
-x = 
+from string import ascii_lowercase as alphabet
 from pprint import PrettyPrinter
+import random
 print = PrettyPrinter().pprint
 
-# c = Cipher('d' * 18)
-# print(c.encode('iamapandabear'))
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+class Cipher(object):
+    def __init__(self, key=None):
+        if key:
+            self.key = ''.join(dict.fromkeys(self.key)) # Key with repeated characters is completely useless
+        elif not key:
+            self.key = list(alphabet)
+            random.shuffle(self.key)
+            self.key = ''.join(self.key)
+
+        key_values = [self.keyvalue(i) for i in range(len(self.key))]
+        self.key_alphabets = [(alphabet[index:] + alphabet[: index]) for index in key_values]
+
+    def encode(self, text):
+        return ''.join(self.key_alphabets[index][alphabet.find(char)]
+        for index, char in enumerate(text.lower()))
+
+    def decode(self, text):
+        return ''.join(alphabet[self.key_alphabets[index].find(char)]
+        for index, char in enumerate(text.lower()))
+
+    # Gets the shifting value of the key at the index specified
+    def keyvalue(self, index):
+        return alphabet.find(self.key[index % len(self.key)])
+
+random.seed(0)
+c = Cipher()
+print(c.decode(c.encode('Hello World')))
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