Create a program that decodes caesar ciphers

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Python: need to create a program that decodes caesar ciphers and meets the following requirements

1. Input the cipher-text.

2. Find the most common character.

3. Find the shift from "E" to that most common character.

4. Use the shift to decode each character of the cipher-text and print the resulting plain-text.

6. If the plain-text isn't readable English, try the next-most common character and continue checking successive next-most-common characters until the resulting plain-text is readable.

7. uses get_char, get_shift, output_plaintext functions

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