Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 68

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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi I have no idea what ive done wrong here. it tells me that I didn’t give a function to encryption

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

            # 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

# User Editable Region

encryption = vigenere(text, custom_key)
   return encryption

# User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 68

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You cannot put return outside of a function body.

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Can you provide the verbatim error message? It usually gives a clear clue to the solution.

You should also review Python functions so you’ll understand what’s happening here: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_functions.asp