Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 70

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Not sure why answer is incorrect - questions are crazy surprised website for coding and questions just dont make sense

Your code so far

text = ‘Hello Zaira’
custom_key = ‘python’

def vigenere(message, key, direction):
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)

text = 'Hello Zaira'
custom_key = 'python'

def vigenere(message, key, direction):
    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)

# User Editable Region

            new_index = offset * direction

# User Editable Region

            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    
    return encrypted_text
    
#encryption = vigenere(text, custom_key)
#print(encryption)

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Question is:
All you need to do is multiply the `offset` by the `direction` in the `new_index` assignment. The multiplication operator in Python is `*` .

I dont know what I need to do so I answered:
new_index = offset * direction

and it said it is wrong ... So frustrating

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 70

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The request says to multiply as you did but it says nothing about removing what it was originally there. It says that “all you need to do is multiply”.
Originally, you had:

new_index = (index + offset) % len(alphabet)
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