Python 2.7.4, does anyone know why this is not working?

The following code is for one of my excercises to pass the subject,

This is my code:

rot13=raw_input("Please write your text! ")

This is where i ask the user for a text

for i in range(len(rot13)):

And in this part I check the text letter by letter with for.

 if rot13[i]=="a":
     rot13[i]="n"
 elif rot13[i]=="b":
     rot13[i]="o"
 elif rot13[i]=="c":
     rot13[i]="p"
 elif rot13[i]=="d":
     rot13[i]="q"
 elif rot13[i]=="e":
     rot13[i]="r"
 elif rot13[i]=="f":
     rot13[i]="s"
 elif rot13[i]=="g":
     rot13[i]="t"
 elif rot13[i]=="h":
     rot13[i]="u"
 elif rot13[i]=="i":
     rot13[i]="v"
 elif rot13[i]=="j":
     rot13[i]="w"
 elif rot13[i]=="k":
     rot13[i]="x"
 elif rot13[i]=="l":
     rot13[i]="y"
 elif rot13[i]=="m":
     rot13[i]="z"
 elif rot13[i]=="n":
     rot13[i]="a"
 elif rot13[i]=="o":
     rot13[i]="b"
 elif rot13[i]=="p":
     rot13[i]="c"
 elif rot13[i]=="q":
     rot13[i]="d"
 elif rot13[i]=="r":
     rot13[i]="e"
 elif rot13[i]=="s":
     rot13[i]="f"
 elif rot13[i]=="t":
     rot13[i]="g"
 elif rot13[i]=="u":
     rot13[i]="h"
 elif rot13[i]=="v":
     rot13[i]="i"
 elif rot13[i]=="w":
     rot13[i]="j"
 elif rot13[i]=="x":
     rot13[i]="k"
 elif rot13[i]=="y":
     rot13[i]="l"
 elif rot13[i]=="z":
     rot13[i]="m" 

print rot13

Does anyone knows why this is not working?

I do not want to do it with encode.