Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 43

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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 43

Added char with += dented line inside if: what’s wrong?

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You need to remove the parentheses.

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Weird it didn’t work before like that it gave me an error and now it did.
Thanks. :slight_smile:

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