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
else:
index = alphabet.find(char)
new_index = index + shift
encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
print(‘char:’, char , ‘encrypted text:’ , encrypted_text)


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

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

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Be consistent in your indentation. Everything is indented to different places in your code. It should all line up

for this in that:
    if this == other:
        code
    else:
        code
        code
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