Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Tell us what’s happening:

It keeps saying I need to add the parentheses and a colon, which I have, I think its an indentation problem but i have tried all manner of indents and none will pass, any ideas?

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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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Hi
You have indentation errors. You need to move the else block so that it’s in the same indentation as your if statement. You must also move your print statements and align them with the for loop.

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