Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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Tell us what’s happening:

Right after your shift variable, declare a function called caesar and indent all the following lines to give your new function a body.

After reading different posts of this same step I thought I was mistaken the name of the variable with a typo but not. If my eyes do not betray me the instruction says cAEsar. I have tested the code in my IDLE terminal and works fine.

Note: I have already trying

Please maybe I already read this so many times that I do not find the error.

Thank you in advance

Your code so far


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text = 'Hello Zaira'
shift = 3
    def caesar (): 
        alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
        encrypted_text = ''
        for char in text.lower():
            if char == ' ':
                encrypted_text += char
            else:
                index = alphabet.find(char)
                new_index = (index + shift) %len(alphabet)
                encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
        print('plain text:', text)
        print('encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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Your code is ok. Maybe you should reset the step to restore the original code and try again

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Welcome to the forum @g.gonzalezf

Unindent the function declaration, then remove the space after the colon.

Happy coding

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Thank you, I was tired trying to figure out the error.

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