Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 43

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help why am i getting a syntax error in the else statement

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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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Compare your code the example in the instructions (especially indentation)