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--description--

Try to assign the string 'Hello Zaira' to your text variable and see what happens in the terminal.

You'll see a string index out of range exception. Don't worry, you'll figure out how to fix it soon!

--hints--

You should have a text variable.

js
assert.match(code, /^text\s*=/m)

You should assign the string 'Hello Zaira' to your text variable.

js
assert.match(code, /^text\s*=\s*("|')Hello\sZaira\1/m)

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--seed-contents--

py
--fcc-editable-region--
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)
--fcc-editable-region--