Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 12

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

I keep getting stuck on this step, and I don’t really understand what it means by this line.
Assign the function call to a variable named encrypted_text.

Your code so far

def caesar(text, shift):
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    shifted_alphabet = alphabet[shift:] + alphabet[:shift]
    translation_table = str.maketrans(alphabet, shifted_alphabet)
encrypted_text = caesar('FreeCodeCamp', 3)
print(encrypted_text)



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def caesar(text, shift):
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    shifted_alphabet = alphabet[shift:] + alphabet[:shift]
    translation_table = str.maketrans(alphabet, shifted_alphabet)
encrypted_text = caesar('FreeCodeCamp', 3)
print(encrypted_text)


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Challenge Information:

Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 12

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Welcome to the forum @Moody54!

Now, test the caesar function by calling it with the string freeCodeCamp and the number 3 as the arguments. Assign the function call to a variable named encrypted_text .

Where, in your current code, have you created a variable and assigned a value to it?

What variable are you asked to create in this step?

How do you call a function? How would call the caesar function with the two arguments in the instruction?

Can you say what you don’t understand about this step?

Happy coding!