Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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Tell us what’s happening:

The question asks the following:
“At the top of your loop, print the result of comparing char with an empty space. Use the equality operator == for that.”
I have typed print(char == ‘’) at the beginning of the for loop but freecodecamp says this is wrong, any ideas what I should do? Thanks

Your code so far


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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
encrypted_text = ''

for char in text.lower():
    print(char == '')
    index = alphabet.find(char)
    new_index = index + shift
    encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    print('char:', char, 'encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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You are super close but this is not an empty space

This is a string with no spaces.

Once you fix that, then it will pass

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I tried your method. It didn’t appear to work for me can you elaborate on what is different?

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As was mentioned earlier, it is best to create a new topic with your code so we can see the issue you are running into.

The directions ask you to print the result of comparing char with an empty space

If you write an empty string with no spaces like this "" that is not correct because it wants you to check for an actual empty space. So modify that string by adding a space to it.

Hope that clarifies

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you are missing a space “print(char == ’ ')” as mentioned by jwilkins.oboe

if you have updated it, try to re run the code, may be hit run again might work

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@petenddk @legacyofl2017 ,
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An empty space should be between the quotes in front of the char ==.
That’s the instruction.
The instructions says: At the top of your loop, print the result of comparing char with an EMPTY SPACE. Use the equality operator == for that.

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