Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 16

Programming Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

Step 16: build a Caesar cypher.
Are these steps supposed to be solvable if I only use the lectures and the handbook? Or is it a case of here’s a vague idea of what’s happening, good luck? mostly i’m so close but waste ages stumbling around
i need to create an if statement using true as the condition to return a string
def caesar(text ,shift):
if true: #my code
print(‘shift must be an integer value’) #my code
the hint to fix is code raised an error… fix it and try again

Your code so far


# User Editable Region

def caesar(text, shift):
    if True:
        print('Shift must be an integer value')


# User Editable Region

    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    shifted_alphabet = alphabet[shift:] + alphabet[:shift]
    translation_table = str.maketrans(alphabet + alphabet.upper(), shifted_alphabet + shifted_alphabet.upper())
    return text.translate(translation_table)


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

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Challenge Information:

Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 16
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-caesar-cipher/step-16

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All good, turns out I had it right at one stage with return not print, the problem is because I’m new to Python, I have no idea what I’m supposed to be looking at, so I wasted 2 hours because I didn’t realise a missing full stop was the issue, not the structure as such.

don’t know how to remove a question from the forum