Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 54

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Hello guys,
I am struggling with 54,

You should pass text and shift as the arguments to your function call by including them inside the parentheses. Don’t forget to separate the arguments with a comma.
Can someone help me with it? thank you

Your code so far

text = 'Hello Zaira'
shift = 3

def caesar(message=text, offset=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)

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caesar()

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 54

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This is your function call here at the end

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

This is your function definition, you shouldn’t change that. You could reset the step and try again.

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Hello pkdvalis,
Thank you for the help! :smiley:

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