Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 39

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Instead of assigning alphabet[new_index] to encrypted_text , assign the current value of encrypted_text plus alphabet[new_index] to this variable.

Can someone please explain this. Not sure how to go about it

Your code so far

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 39

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Hi! In other words, you have to add alphabet[new_index] to encrypted_text and this should be stored in the same encrypted_text variable

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