Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 17

You should update your alphabet.find(text[0]) call to use text[0].lower() as the argument. Pay attention to place the method call at the beginning of the line.


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


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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 17

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You need to include the parentheses when you use the .lower() method.

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