Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Tell us what’s happening:

def caesar():
text = ‘Hello World’
shift = 3
alphabet = ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’
encrypted_text = ‘’

for char in text.lower():
    if char == ' ':
        encrypted_text += char
    else:
        index = alphabet.find(char)
        new_index = index + shift
        encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    print('char:', char, 'encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

Call the function

caesar()

where is the mistake?

Your code so far


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def caesar():
    text = 'Hello World'
    shift = 3
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    encrypted_text = ''

    for char in text.lower():
        if char == ' ':
            encrypted_text += char
        else:
            index = alphabet.find(char)
            new_index = index + shift
            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
        print('char:', char, 'encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

# Call the function
caesar()



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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Hi. The function needs to start right after the shift variable. Have you done this?

You also appear to have deleted some of the seed code. I suggest you reset the step and try again. Don’t make any deletions.