Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 68

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I am not understanding what this question is asking me:

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

I understand that for the first part I need vigenere(text, custom_key), but I don’t understand the second part of storing the return value in a variable called encryption.

Can someone explain?

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

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vigenere(text, custom_key)
    encryption = return(vigenere)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 68

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Welcome to the forum @a.r.branaman

Line 1 of your code has a value assigned or stored in a variable.
You need to do a similar thing with a function call.

Happy coding