Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 19

Python
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Step 19 of creating caesar cipher I believe there something wrong with the site, i believe my code is right i verified. Plus theres no error on the terminal, only the answer is printed. Still, when i try to check my code im getting a message saying, “Your code raised an error before any tests could run. Please fix it and try again.”

Your code so far

def caesar(text, shift):
    if not isinstance(shift, int):
        return 'Shift must be an integer value.'


# User Editable Region

    if shift <= 1:
        return 'Shift must be a positive integer'

    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

# User Editable Region

    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)

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/147.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 19

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Hi @pewIpew,

Does the message you are returning match exactly to the text in the instructions?

Isn’t 1 a positive integer?

Happy coding!

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haha such a silly mistake, thank you. Using <=0 worked