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

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You should call vigenere passing text and custom_key as the arguments.

js
({ test: () => assert.match(code, /vigenere\s*\(\s*text\s*,\s*custom_key\s*\)/) })

You should have an encryption variable.

js
({ test: () => assert(__userGlobals.has("encryption")) })

You should assign your function call to the encryption variable.

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({ test: () => assert.match(code, /encryption\s*=\s*vigenere\s*\(\s*text\s*,\s*custom_key\s*\)/) })

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py
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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