Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 48

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

It says to print ‘plain text:’ text after the loop I don’t know how I haven’t. also could someone explain what I’m doing with and what “char” actually is.
Thank you

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text = 'Hello Zaira'
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) % len(alphabet)
        encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
print('encrypted text:', encrypted_text)
print('plain text:', text)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 48

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char comes from here, it’s each character in text (lowercase)

it seems you missed the key detail that the instructions say ‘before’. Please read again and pay attention to that

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