Python encryption program

[Glubz]

It's a little bit disorganised, but it's my first attempt. 

# Beginning code
def encrypt():
    print "This is a small school project for encrypting text via Python."




# Input questions
text = raw_input("Enter the text you would like to encrypt: ")
key = input("Input value key:  ")




# Accumulator
lstmsg = ""
for j in text:
    lstmsg = lstmsg + chr(ord(j) +key)




# Output for the encrypted message
print "[" + lstmsg + "]"

What do you guys think I should do to improve?

 

[velox]

Maintain raw_input instead of input. The latter runs an eval on the returned string. How about inverting what you've written to decrypt?

 

[Sleasing]

That is a good encryption program and ill use it.