Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 41

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can anyone help me i don understand what im doing wrong

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char =='':
    print('space!')
    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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Hi, and welcome ! :wave:

Double check the indentation of your if statement, and note the difference between a space and an empty string.

The original line was this

print(char == ' ')

But you’ve removed the space between the quotes

char ==''
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