Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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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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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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If you want to compare char with an empty space, you’ll need to include quotation marks around the space.

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Hello michaesntos,

If you compare anything with a character, for example my_var == 'a' the character always has to have the single quotes around it to tell the code it’s a character. Right now you are comparing char to nothing. Instead you have to compare it to the space character. How would you write the space character?

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I’ve already done that
print (char ==’ ') but it still didn’t work

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These quotes don’t match, make sure to use ' twice.

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print(char== ‘’)
like this?

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There is no empty space between those quotations marks.

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it works, thank you guys

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Yay I’m very happy we got there. You got this! :slight_smile:

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