curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-string-manipulation-by-building-a-cipher/65a51c9e000b660122b8b29e.md
Uncomment the decryption variable and change its value by passing text as the first argument to decrypt.
Your decryption variable should have the value of decrypt(text, custom_key).
({ test: () => assert.match(code, /^decryption\s*=\s*decrypt\s*\(\s*text\s*,\s*custom_key\s*\)/m) })
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)
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print(f'\nEncrypted text: {text}')
print(f'Key: {custom_key}')
#decryption = decrypt(encryption, custom_key)
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#print(decryption)