Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 38

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

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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 38

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I got a little dizzy here, I did as I was told

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Can you please talk about how you are stuck instead of posting screenshots? Thanks

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tells me to do so:
You should assign encrypted_text + alphabet[new_index] to your encrypted_text variable.

I did:

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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Copy-pasting the instructions and your code isn’t talking about how you are stuck either.

I don’t see a variable assignment to encrypted_text.

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