Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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I am getting a syntax error and I am not sure how to fix it. I thought I was doing it right but it seems I was not

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char == ' ':
        print(char + encrypted_text)
    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 42

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you were not asked to print anything.
Instead you were supposed to use the += operator to add char to the encrypted_text variable

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