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())
print(index)
shifted = alpabet(index + shift) 


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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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alphabet is not a function, so you can’t use round parenthesis here

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Excellent attempt! You need to use square brackets to access an element within a string or list.

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