Change each character in string to the next character in alphabet

Question

I am coding in Python 2.7 using PyCharm on Ubuntu.

I am trying to create a function that will take a string and change each character to the character that would be

Answer 1

Look at this for ideas to simplify your code.

def LetterChanges(word):
    zabc  = 'abcdefghijklmonpqrstuvwxyzabc'
    ab_st = list(zabc)
    new_word = []    
    for letter in list(word.lower().strip()):        
        new_word.append(ab_st[zabc.index(letter) + 1])
    new_word = "".join(new_word)
    return new_word          


LetterChanges("  Chicago ")