Hello, guys.
I had have followed the instructions in the exercise, but when I check the code the system print: You should assign the alphabet letter at the index index + shift to your new variable.
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Hello, guys.
I had have followed the instructions in the exercise, but when I check the code the system print: You should assign the alphabet letter at the index index + shift to your new variable…
Your code so far
/* User Editable Region */
text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())
print (index)
shifted=index+shift
print(alphabet[shifted])
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Challenge Information:
Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16
So the code you wrote now is theoretically not wrong. It does the same thing, and prints what you would expect.
Now the problem of why it not passes is, that the variable shifted needs to have the alphabet letter at index plus shift assigned to it. So instead of doing print(alphabet[shifted]) you need to change the variable assignment it so that if you print(shifted) it still works as intended.
Oh no we’re getting a bit off track. The only thing that we need to change is adding a new variable, we don’t want to remove any of the original variables.
So if we go back to the initial code:
text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower())
print(index)
Now without removing anyting, on line 6 we’re going to declare a variable named shifted. What we need to assign to shifted is the alphabet letter at index plus shift .
You were really close with what you wrote originally alphabet[shifted] but since we’re doing it in the shifted assignment we can’t write shifted in the square brackets.
Instead you have to use index + shift.
Now if you done all correctly, if you print(shifted) it should show you k in the console under the 7 digit that was there already.
No worries, slow or fast, as long as you keep learning you get where you want to be. Better to be slow and diligent than being fast and unmotivated. Plus the more you learn the easier it will get, as it will all start to make sense.
