Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

Python
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Step 50

Give message and offset values, by passing text and shift as arguments to the caesar function call.

what’s wrong?

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text = 'Hello Zaira'
shift = 3

def caesar(message, offset, text, shift):
    

    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    encrypted_text = ''
    for char in message.lower():
        if char == ' ':
            encrypted_text += char
        else:
            index = alphabet.find(char)
            new_index = (index + offset) % len(alphabet)
            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    print('plain text:', message)
    print('encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

caesar()

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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Here’s where you call the function:
caesar()

but you aren’t passing it anything

def caesar(message, offset):

This line is where you define how the function handles arguments that it receives. If it receives 2 arguments it passes them down into the body of the function with the variables message and offset. It’s ignorant of the original variable names.

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