Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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help! where am I going wrong.I tried very hard, but I couldn’t find it.

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char == ' ':
        print(encrypted_text += 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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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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The instructions are not perfectly clear here, but you can delete the print() statement entirely. You do not need to print this operation.

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