Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Tell us what’s happening:

I’m not sure why this code isn’t working? The variable shifted stores the value ‘k’ which is what it says should be done?

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


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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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in variable shifted u don’t need to make this much complication. Assign variable shifted with string_variable[a+b] where a and b are indices. Remove

no need for this line.

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Wait so the problem was i rewrote the value of the variable index again instead of using the variable itself? It worked once I assigned shift to alphabet[index + shift] - Thanks for the help

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Yes in ur earlier response u rewrote the value of index.

Happy to hear u passed :smile:

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