Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 14

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Tell us what’s happening:

I am really not sure what I am missing here, I have tried a many methods but I keep coming up with a Type Error: invalid syntax. Any and all help/clarification would be greatly appreciated because my brain hurts at this point

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alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
text = "alphabet"
position = alphabet.find(text[0])  
new_position = (position + 3) % len(alphabet)
new_character = alphabet[new_position]
print(text[0])
print(position)
print(new_character)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 14

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Hi there and welcome to our community!

Ok, the first thing I’d do is hit the Reset button to restore the starting code for this step, as you have a lot of additional and modified code which shouldn’t be there.

This is the starting code:

text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
alphabet.find('z')

The instructions are:

Modify your existing .find() call passing it text[0] as the argument instead of 'z' .

So, all you need to do is make the above minor modification to the final line of code above.

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thanks a lot for your help

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