Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
index = alphabet.find(text[0].lower()) + shift
print(index)
shifted = 



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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Hello Apeer,

You don’t have to change anything in your index variable. You can leave that alone.

But you don’t seem to have assigned anything to your shifted variable. How would you assign it the alphabet letter at index plus shift?

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I appreciate your feedback but I’m still unable to solve it.
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No worries, We’re kinda going the wrong way around atm. Remember the index variable is a number (7) and so is shift (3). So if you were to so index + shift we essentially get 10.

So instead of trying to get the letter h out of index we want to get index + shift out of alphabet, since we’re trying to find the letter at place 10.

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can you be more precise I’m still stuck

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Sure,

So like I mentioned index + shift would be 10. If we wanted to get the letter at place 10 from alphabet we would do something like alphabet[10] and this would return us k. Instead of just writing 10 inside the brackets though, you will want to use the variables that the question wants you to use.

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Thank you so much that really helped me out…

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