Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 66

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I don’t understand how to do this the instructions say to return encrypted_text. I done what I thought it wanted me to do. However, it says that I still need to assign ‘encrypted_text’ to ‘return’

Your code so far

text = 'Hello Zaira'
custom_key = 'python'

def vigenere(message, key):
    key_index = 0
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    encrypted_text = ''

    for char in message.lower():
    
        # Append space to the message
        if char == ' ':
            encrypted_text += char
        else:        
            # Find the right key character to encode
            key_char = key[key_index % len(key)]
            key_index += 1

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            # Define the offset and the encrypted letter
            offset = alphabet.index(key_char)
            index = alphabet.find(char)
            new_index = (index + offset) % len(alphabet)
            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    return(encrypted_text)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 66

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Your code is fine. Just separate return and encrypted text with a space

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Thanks for the feedback. However, I tried that and it didn’t work. Any other suggestions?

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Never mind, I experimented a little more and figured out that I had to delete the parenthesis around ‘encrypted text’. Thank you so much I have been stuck on that for a while. :+1:

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