Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 37

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Tell us what’s happening:

text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
encrypted_text = ‘’

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

Can anyone check and tell me why this code is not getting passed?

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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 = 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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Found the bug!

In Step 37 read the instructions closely.
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The image instructs you to code (on line 12):

print('char:', char, 'encrypted text:',  encrypted_text)

But you coded this:

print('char:', char, 'encrypted_text:', encrypted_text)

Reasoning: It asks you to write the string ‘encrypted text:’, not ‘encrypted_text:’ according to the instruction.

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Think about this, at the end of the for loop, when the print statement runs, is the string when printed exactly as intended ? Could there be a typo ? Check the instructions again. Good luck!