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 = (index + shift)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Hello hwahir3,

Right now you assigned index + shift to shifted, but the question wants you to find the alphabet letter at that location. Remember you found the first letter of text by using text[0]. Now how do you find the letter at index + shift in the alphabet variable?

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