Programming Essentials, Python 2.7, Give Correct Answer to Professor's Question.

Response and Questions from Professor:  I'm unable to run your program. What is makestrans? How is it being used in your program? I'll regrade question 1 once I hear back from you.

Answer his 2 questions.  See assignment information, so you can understand what he is talking about.  Assignment information below:  

Encrypt Words Routine and File Manipulation

1. Encrypt the following words using a Caesar cipher with a distance value of 5. Provide an algorithm written in python to generate the cypher.
   1. So Python
   2. Much cipher
   3. Wow
2. Write a program to open testFile.txt for input, append your name to the end of the file. Print out the number of lines contained in the file and close it.