Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 67

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I don’t understand what’s wrong with this code. I have done what others with similar challenge were asked to do but still not working

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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

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

# User Editable Region

            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    return encrypted_text
def vigenere(text, custom_key):

# User Editable Region

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 67

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Welcome to the forum @EmmanuelBirikuro

You cannot declare the same function twice.

To fix up your code, assign encryption to your function call.
Don’t forget to remove the colon.

Happy coding

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Thanks but I have tried it and it’s saying my code raised an error before any test could run.

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Please share your updated code.

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