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Python

Posted by Chang Hyeon Lee
Chang Hyeon Lee
2,008 Points

Can you give me explanation of this code?

And also I need explanation about 'round' too

def sillycase(string):
    new_str = round(len(string) / 2)
    return  string[:new_str].lower() + string[new_str:].upper

1 Answer

Elad Ohana
Elad Ohana
24,457 Points
Elad Ohana
Elad Ohana
24,457 Points

Hi Chang,

The function's goal is to change the capitalization of the first half of the string to lower case, and the second half to upper case. It does this by figuring out the index of half the string using the new_str variable and calculation a rounded estimate of half the string length (round function will round to the nearest whole number). It then starts with a slice of the first half of the string: 

string[:new_str] # from index 0 to half length

and converts it to lower case, and then adds a slice of the second half of the string: 

string[new_str:] # from half length index to the end of the string

and converts it to upper case