Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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Hi, so I’ve been stuck on this step. I’m being told to use the def keyword to declare the new function, although it seems to me I have done so.

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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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Hello!

It looks you indented the function itself. It has to be on the same level as “text” and “shift”. Just the function body has to be indented one level higher.

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It would make sense, but when I take away the indentation of the function I get told every line beneath the “shift” should be indented

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Try the following:

  • Put everything on the first level, including the body.
  • Select the entire code of the body, from “alphabet” to the last print.
  • Press tab once.
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This is how to indent a function:

code
code

def function():
    func code
    func code

code
code
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Hope you got a solution for this. It not, after declaring the def caesor(): function, select all code under it and press tab key once. That fixed mine. Thanks

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