Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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I’m rather embarrassingly stumped. I cannot decipher exactly what the prompt requires me to enter. My code has the bit before ‘+ shift’ left blank, but I’ve tried index, alphabet[7], index[7], text[7], alphabet, etc , etc. Could anyone guide me in the right direction?

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

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 16

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Welcome to the forum @vaughn.m.lewey

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  1. Use the index variable you declared as a guide.
  2. The zero in square brackets is accessing a certain position of the alphabet string.
    You’ll need to add something before the shift variable.

Happy coding

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Welcome.

Teller is spot on. The directions say to do something PLUS shift.

Your syntax is going to be like this:
declare your variable >>then assign it something >>that something is the alphabet string >>location in the alphabet string is defined as something PLUS shift

You’ve got this.

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