Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 41

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

for char in text.lower():
    print(char == '')
    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 41

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'' #empty string
' ' #space
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Hello there!
The problem with your code is that they told you to compare the char with the space inside the text variable so instead you compared it with '' which means you are not reffering to any character instead of ' ' which reffers to the space in the variable

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