Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 41

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

I am not sure what this question is asking me to do. I know it wants me to compare [char] and set that equal to a blank quote so I have tried to add → char == (’ ‘) <-.
From there I tried to
print(’ ') and print(" ") and print (char)

when I plugged this into chatgpt this is the code it gave me

for char in text.lower():
# Check if the character is a space
is_space = char == ’ ’
print(‘char:’, char, ‘is space:’, is_space)

and the program still told me that this was incorrect.

# Perform other operations based on the challenge prompt

Your code so far


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

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

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 41

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Hi there. You really should not use ChatGPT when trying to learn how to code for several reasons. The biggest one is you deprive useful of a good learning opportunity.

Secondly your Python code shouldn’t be working in the challenge to begin with because of this formatting issue.

result = (char == ' ')
        print(result)

Once print has the same indentation as the rest of your code, maybe try directly printing the result into the console instead of saving it into a variable. While it is generally nice to store things in variables, here it isn’t required.

Hope this helps. :slight_smile:

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