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 = alphabet.index("h") + shift


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i got no clue what to put

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Hi there and welcome to our community!

Declare a variable named shifted and assign it the alphabet letter at index plus shift .

You should be using square bracket notation to find any particular letter in the alphabet string.

For instance alphabet[0] is ‘a’ and alphabet[25] is ‘z’.
You could also put a variable inside the square brackets.
EXAMPLE:

alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
number = 1
print(alphabet[number])
# would print 'b'

You can even evaluate an expression inside the square brackets, such as adding the values of two variables together… (such and index and shift).

Hopefully this will lead you to the solution!

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