cipher = open('cipher','r').read().split(' ')
k = 0
flag = ''
while ( k != 9 ):
  for i in range( len(cipher)  ): 
      flag+= cipher[i][k]
      print k
  k = k + 1

print flag

Line 1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
Line 14: warning: character constant too long for its type
Line 1: error: request for member 'read' in something not a structure or union
Line 2: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'k'
Line 7: error: empty character constant