Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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Tell us what’s happening:

i have no idea what im doing wrong please help
text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
encrypted_text = ‘’
for char in text.lower():
index = alphabet.find(char)
new_index = index + shift
new_char = encrypted_text
print(‘char:’, char, ‘encrypted text:’, encrypted_text)

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

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

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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Replace means that where you had new_char now you should have encrypted_text. You should not reassign it, but substitute the variable name. I suggest you to reset the code for this step.

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sorry im still stuck

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

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

this is what i have ive been trying every variation i can think off

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Welcome to the forum @christiankrizanovic2

  1. You should replace new_char with encrypted_text inside your for loop.

I still see new_char

Also the print call needs updating.

I formatted your post so the code displays correctly on the forum.

Happy coding

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

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

this is what i understood from ur reply idk in which way i would change print

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What would this line do?

Instead of assigning alphabet[new_index] to new_char you will assign it to encrypted_text instead.

You can reset the step to go back to the original code, and change the name of this variable again.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH, ive been trying and researching for 2 days

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