Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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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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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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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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you made more changes to the lines than only indenting so you may need to reset the step and add the function again, make sure to only add indentation and not change the lines

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