Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 38

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

The code below in step 38 does not pass.
What is the issue?

Your code so far

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

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 38

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You deleted a bunch of code. I would put all the code you deleted back. You should only replace the variable name new_char with the variable name encrypted_text.

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Still not working. Here’s the code I currently have:

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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The request says:

Now, replace new_char with encrypted_text.

You had before:

new_char = alphabet[new_index]

Now, new_char needs to disappear for what the request is asking.

5

Here you did not replace the variable name new_char with the variable name encrypted_text.

new_char should appear nowhere in your code once you’re done replacing.

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K. got it. I was interpreting replace as “assignment” to new_char.

encrypted_text = alphabet[new_index]

My code now works. Thank you.

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Unfortunally, the wording is a bit unambiguous and terse, specially for Python where that’s a normal way to say: assign this label variable to this other label variable.

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you can open a github issue for feedback on the steps

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