Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 15

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I’m struggling with this one so bad I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong

Your code so far

def caesar(text, shift):
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    shifted_alphabet = alphabet[shift:] + alphabet[:shift]

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    translation_table = str.maketrans(str.upper(alphabet), str.upper(shifted_alphabet))

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    return text.translate(translation_table)


encrypted_text = caesar('freeCodeCamp', 3)
print(encrypted_text)

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Challenge Information:

Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 15

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you are using upper() in the wrong way, you need to str.upper() where str is the string you want to make uppercase

you also should not remove the lowercase version of the alphabet, instead you need to concatenate the two

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Welcome to the forum @Puffszy

Update your str.maketrans() call by concatenating to each argument the uppercase version of the argument itself.

Please reset the step to restore the seed code.

For each argument, concatenate the uppercase version of the argument.

Happy coding

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Thank you so much I appreciate it!

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Thank you so much I appreciate it!!

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Continuing the discussion from Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 15:

I am also on this step. However the solution you gave didn’t work for me. Please can you explain to me? Thank you very much.

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