def hex_to_rgb(hex):
  return tuple(int(hex[i:i+2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))

hex_to_rgb('FFA501') # (255, 165, 1)

def get_ldap_user(member_cn, user, passwrd):
    '''
    Get an LDAP user and return the SAMAccountName
    '''
    #---- Setting up the Connection
    #account used for binding - Avoid putting these in version control
    bindDN = str(user) + "@unt.ad.unt.edu"
    bindPass = passwrd

    #set some tuneables for the LDAP library.
    ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_ALLOW)
    #ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, CACERTFILE)
    
    conn = ldap.initialize('ldaps://unt.ad.unt.edu')
    conn.protocol_version = 3
    conn.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0)

    #authenticate the connection so that you can make additional queries
    try:
        result = conn.simple_bind_s(bindDN, bindPass) 
    except ldap.INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
        result = "Invalid credentials for %s" % user
        sys.exit()

    #build query in the form of (uid=user)
    ldap_query = '(|(displayName=' + member_cn + ')(cn='+ member_cn + ')(name=' + member_cn + '))'
    ldap_info = conn.search_s('DC=unt,DC=ad,DC=unt,DC=edu', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, filterstr=ldap_query)
    sAMAccountName = str(ldap_info[0][1]['sAMAccountName']).replace("[b'", "").replace("']","")
    return sAMAccountName

import string

def caesar(text, shift, alphabets):
	def shift_alphabet(alphabet):
	    return alphabet[shift:] + alphabet[:shift]
	
	shifted_alphabets = tuple(map(shift_alphabet, alphabets))
	final_alphabet = "".join(alphabets)
	final_shifted_alphabet = "".join(shifted_alphabets)
	table = str.maketrans(final_alphabet, final_shifted_alphabet)
	return text.translate(table)

plain_text = "Hey Skrome, welcome to CodeCatch"
print(caesar(plain_text, 8, [string.ascii_lowercase, string.ascii_uppercase, string.punctuation]))

def print_x_pattern(size):
    i,j = 0,size - 1

    while j >= 0 and i < size:

        initial_spaces = ' '*min(i,j)
        middle_spaces = ' '*(abs(i - j) - 1)
        final_spaces = ' '*(size - 1 - max(i,j))

        if j == i:
            print(initial_spaces + '*' + final_spaces)
        else:
            print(initial_spaces + '*' + middle_spaces + '*' + final_spaces)

        i += 1
        j -= 1

print_x_pattern(7)

def sum_of_powers(end, power = 2, start = 1):
  return sum([(i) ** power for i in range(start, end + 1)])

sum_of_powers(10) # 385
sum_of_powers(10, 3) # 3025
sum_of_powers(10, 3, 5) # 2925