Group project that I ended up doing most of the work for
The idea of the python script is to be able to encode and decode a string into a series of 1's and 0's using a separate data file. As it stands, the current python script is very unoptimized and there are bits and pieces that are hard-coded and could easily be improved upon. I plan to come back to this at some point to polish it up, but this is where I have left it at the moment.