Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 67

[klblasini5]

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I have tried to find the mistake for over 20 minutes. It keeps telling me that there is an indentation error and that my function should return encrypted_ text

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 67

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[pkdvalis]

There is a line in the editor that lines up with the beginning of the for loop. You need to backspace your return one more space to line this up correctly.

Also, you need to return the variable encrypted_text not a string with the letters "encrypted_ text"