Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

[gigironimo]

Tell us what’s happening:

Hello togehter,
my problem is I don’t understand my problem. In my opinion I did everything as descrbied. But I get every time the message that the code does not pass. I hope someone can give me a tip. Thanks in advance.

Your code so far

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text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
encrypted_text = ''
for char in text.lower():
    if char == ' ': 
        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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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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[ILM]

Why do you have an if statement? there isn’t any mention of one in the instructions

[gigironimo]

I thought for the comparison. I have to say to the program if there is a space print …
or did i get something wrong?

[gigironimo]

Can you explain it to me because I have no idea.

[ILM]

At the beginning of your loop body, print the result of comparing char with a space (' ' ). Use the equality operator == for that.

No mention of an if statement, comparisons don’t require if statements

Here you are asked to print a comparison

@gigironimo

    if char == ' ': 
        print(char == ' ')

you are doing it, but inside the if statement. Remove the if statement

[gigironimo]

When I make this changes as you described, at first I get a failure message about this colon
an when I correct it I got the message: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “main.py”, line 8
print(char == ’ ')
IndentationError: unexpected indent

[gigironimo]

My code looks like this now:
text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
encrypted_text = ‘’

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

[ILM]

unexpected indent means you have a line indented wrong

@gigironimo

My code looks like this now:

Indentation is not visible, please format your code correctly
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