Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 41

Tell us what’s happening:

I tried everyway that i could possibly think of but it keep telling me that i need to print the string ‘space!’ inside of my if statement

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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

Hi Glacer and welcome to the community!

Your only issue is that you shouldn’t have a colon here:

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Thank alot, idk how did i overlook such mistake