Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 23

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

I am completely stuck on assigning the variable index to alphabet.find(char)

Your code so far

text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
index = alphabet.find(char)

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text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
index = ‘alphabet.find(char[0].lower())’

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### Challenge Information:
Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 23
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/scientific-computing-with-python/learn-string-manipulation-by-building-a-cipher/step-23
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Is that the complete code? In this step there should be for loop, which uses char as variable with the specific element for each iteration.

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I am still obviously missing something - I have the code now as

text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
index = alphabet.find(char)
for char in text:
print(char)

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That’s the right thing, but it needs to be moved one line lower, so it is just before the line with print(char).

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Try this:
removed*

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where you able to solve this? I’m having the same problem

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code spoiler removed

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It is great that you solved the challenge, but instead of posting your full working solution, it is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge.

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It is great that you solved the challenge, but instead of posting your full working solution, it is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge.

We are trying to cut back on the number of spoiler solutions found on the forum and instead focus on helping other campers with their questions and definitely not posting full working solutions.

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Sanity solved it for you above.
but you have to declare the variable and its value after the for loop.
You have to be careful with your indentation.
hope this helps.

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