Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 66

Python
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def vigenere(text, custom_key):
encryption = (text, custom_key)
return encryption

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Hi @mordonez

Call your function passing text and custom_key as the arguments. Store the return value of the function call in a variable called encryption .

Your code is defining a function, not calling it.

Also, your code is assigning the arguments to a variable.
For this step, assign function call (with arguments) to the variable.

No need for the return statement.

Happy coding

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Hi @mordonez

For next time, describe the issue in your own words. Learning to communicate problems is a part of becoming a web developer.

Happy coding

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hi @Teller
if i erase the return statement, it still say that “You should have an encryption variable.” my code doesn’t have the variable? or i should write it in other way?

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Your function definition ends with the return statement.

Then later on, when you want to use the function, you call it.

Define the function:

def function(parameter):
    code
    return code

call the function:

function(argument)
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hi @pkdvalis
i try calling it function, but says that i need call it vigenere. so when i change it continue with “You should have an encryption variable.” so i dont know if im not puting the variable or if i missing someting

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Hi @mordonez

Use what @pkdvalis wrote above, regarding the difference between defining a function, and calling a function.

You just need to rearrange a few things to make the code into a function call assigned to a variable.

Happy coding

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Don’t call it function. This was a generic example of syntax of how to define and call (run/use) a function.

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