Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 30

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Tell us what’s happening:

something wrong? i i’ve tried to use text[0] = ‘car’ for this solution.

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# User Editable Region

text ='Hello World'
text[0] ='car'

# User Editable Region

shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'

for char in text.lower():
    index = alphabet.find(char)
    print(char, index)
    new_index = index + shift

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 30

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Yes actually. You see think of the phrase “Hello world” as a list of letters with the ‘H’ in position zero and ‘e’ in position 1 and so forth. The list assumes that each position holds a single letter (or punctuation mark or space or number). The code doesn’t know how to handle you shoving three letters into a spot where there once was one.

Happy coding. :slight_smile:

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a character of your choice

Instructions are explicit here, a “character” is 1 letter.

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finally, thank you so much!