Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 71

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I have tried all my known logics but i am not getting the answer. Please show the answer for this question. I didn’t get it

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)

# User Editable Region

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

# User Editable Region

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

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 71

We cannot write the answer for you. Please talk about how you got stuck working out what is wrong.

while what you have written is technically correct. the tests expect the mutliplication on the other side of offset