Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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Tell us what’s happening:

Instructions state to “print alphabet variable outside of caesar fuction”

I’m not sure what the answer they’re looking for is, because I attempted just that. Unless my position in the code is wrong? help!

Your code so far


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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print (alphabet)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 50

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You don’t usually put a space between the function name and the (

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