Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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What wrong did I do here, I have added the operator

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char += ' ':
       
    index = alphabet.find(char)
    new_index = index + shift
    encrypted_text += char 
    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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Where is the following code line given by default?

encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]

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This line should be found within the ‘if’ statement (don’t forget to indent it).

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while doing at first It showed me I should give char as value to the current encrypted_text, but now I realised and corrected It, thanks

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