Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

Python
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What am I doing wrong? it keeps giving errors.

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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 50

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we are working on fixing the tests… for now please remove the space after the colon

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