Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 9

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I need help understanding what I’m doing wrong please.

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text = 'Hello World'
print(type(text))
shift = '3'
print(shift)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 9

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Hi there,

So the lesson asks you to:

“As you can see, the output of printing type(text) is <class 'str'>, which means that your variable is a string, indicated as str. Now go to a new line and create another variable called shift and assign the value 3 to this variable.”

The issue in your code is that you have assigned the value 3 as a string ('3') instead of as a number (3). In Python, numbers don’t need to be inside quotes to be recognized as numeric values.

So, you should assign 3 to shift as a number, not as a string.

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Hello there, you should not have wrote the 3 with apostrophes. (AKA these ’ ’ ) you should write it like this.

shift = 3

Also, in step 9 you are NOT asked to print shift.

I hope this was of help. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. :slight_smile:

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