Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 22

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Tell us what’s happening:

Stuck on Step 22. Checker keeps saying ‘You should set shift to - shift when encrypt is not truthy’ no matter what I try. I’ve tried if not encrypt, if encrypt != True, if encrypt is False, shift = -shift, shift = - shift, shift *= -1, moving the block around, resetting, and different browsers. Code runs fine, logic is correct. Seems like a checker bug — others have reported the same. Any workaround?

Your code so far


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def caesar(text, shift, encrypt=True):

    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.'

    if not encrypt:
        shift = - shift

    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

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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

Challenge Information:

Build a Caesar Cipher - Step 22

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Welcome to the forum @andrewgoldman17!

You have changed the starting code, which will cause the tests to fail. Please reset this step and try again. (The code you wrote appears to be correct.)

Happy coding!

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try to encapsulate - shift