Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 40

Python
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You should indent the lines of code after your “else” clause.
What is the error?
Can someone explain?

/* User Editable Region */

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char == ' ':
        encrypted_text += char
    else:
        print("encrypted: ",encrypted_text)
    index = alphabet. Find(char)
    new_index = index + shift
    encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    print('char:', char, 'encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

/* User Editable Region */

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 40

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Hello @inocencio80

Indentation is important in Python language. see here and also here.

Good luck!

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you should indent all the lines below the else clause as they belong inside it…

Say,

else:
   print()
   indent all the 4 lines
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Let me describe how to carry out indentation in python for you.

You can use either spaces or tabs for indentation, but be consistent with one.
PEP 8 (Python Enhancement Proposal 8), recommend using 4 spaces for each level of indentation. Try this let see how it goes.

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you indented only the first line, indent all the lines after the else statement

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Solved, thank you all. :smiley:

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