Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 89

[ioanrichards90]

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not quite sure what im doing wrong as they are asking to combine the key and custom key parts of the code, any help will be very helpful thanks

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text = 'mrttaqrhknsw ih puggrur'
custom_key = 'python'

def vigenere(message, key, direction=1):
    key_index = 0
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    final_message = ''

    for char in message.lower():

        # Append any non-letter character to the message
        if not char.isalpha():
            final_message += char
        else:        
            # Find the right key character to encode/decode
            key_char = key[key_index % len(key)]
            key_index += 1

            # Define the offset and the encrypted/decrypted letter
            offset = alphabet.index(key_char)
            index = alphabet.find(char)
            new_index = (index + offset*direction) % len(alphabet)
            final_message += alphabet[new_index]
    
    return final_message

def encrypt(message, key):
    return vigenere(message, key)
    
def decrypt(message, key):
    return vigenere(message, key, -1)

# User Editable Region

encryption = encrypt(text, custom_key)
print('Encrypted text: ' + text)
print(key: + custom_key)
print("key: " + custom_key)
decryption = decrypt(encryption, custom_key)
print(decryption)

# User Editable Region

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 89

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[pkdvalis]

concatenating the string Key: and the value of the custom_key variable.

First of all you have this line twice:

print(key: + custom_key)
print("key: " + custom_key)

Key: note the capitalization.

Otherwise looks fine. You are doing the same thing as this line, but with a different variable:

print('Encrypted text: ' + text)