Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 21

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I am completely stumped on this. I need to “Add a third parameter named encrypt to your function and give it a default value of True.”

I thought I could just write def caesar(text, shift, encrypt): after I had added encrypt == True or encrypt = True. I have tried a number of similar thoughts and I can’t seem to connect the example code to what I am supposed to be doing.
Thanks very much for your help!

Your code so far


# User Editable Region

def caesar(text, shift):
  

# User Editable Region

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

    if shift < 1 or shift > 25:
        return 'Shift must be an integer between 1 and 25.'

    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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Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 21
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-caesar-cipher/step-21

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Welcome to the forum @cowsinlove

Using the example code as a guide, you need to add a parameter with a default value to the function definition.

Happy coding