Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Tell us what’s happening:

What is it that I did wrong on this code.
Just alphabet is not defined

Your code so far


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text = 'Hello Zaira'
shift = 3
def caesar():
    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('plain text:', text)
print('encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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and indent all the following lines to give your new function a body.

You forgot this part. If you don’t do that, your function will be just this:

Therefore the error saying that alphabet is not defined.

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