Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 67

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it is raising an error but not able to solve it can anyone help me

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# User Editable Region
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)
            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
        return encrypted_text
        encryption = vigenere(text,custom_key)
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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 67

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Hello!

You have to call your function outside of its body.

Recursions will follow later in the Python curriculum :wink:.

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