Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

Python
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Tell us what’s happening:

in the command we have to indent our code to become the body of the function def. I have done it but it is still wrong

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)
caesar()

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Challenge Information:

Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Welcome to the forum @anstryna46

Here is a comparison of the original code and your code.

The code in blue is the original code, the code in red is your code.
The code in magenta is the overlap.

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You appear to have modified the value of the encrypted_text variable by inserting a single space.

Also, you are not asked to call the function.

Happy coding

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