Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 42

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Tell us what’s happening:

I dont know what i’m doing wrong. I have read the forum and I think I understand the reasoning, but I still can’t get it right? Please help!! x

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

for char in text.lower():
    if char += ' ':
        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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Hi

Can you say what your change to this line is doing to your code?

if char += ' ':
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You’re very close. Right now, you’re using char +=' ' is it correctly printing what’s needed? Good luck!

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