Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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i get an alphabet is not defined error i am not sure how to fix this please help

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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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You are missing this part of the instructions

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

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