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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Tuples Stringcases

Posted by Darrin Spell Jr
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Darrin Spell Jr
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I'm not sure I quite understand this challenge.

I don't think my approach to this challenge is correct. Can someone help explain this to me please.

stringcases.py 
def stringcases ("single",*args):
    for string in stringcases
    print string.uppercase
    print string.lowercase
    print string.titlecased
    print string.reversed
return string

1 Answer

Andrew Bruce
Andrew Bruce
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Andrew Bruce
Andrew Bruce
7,822 Points

Hi Darrin,

The challenge is asking you to take in one string, and output a tuple containing the same string but in different cases (e.g. upper case, lower case etc.).

A tuple is a Python collection which has an unchangeable order and is represented by round brackets () separated by commas. You need to use string methods to alter the string for the first 3 like so -

All uppercase = string.upper()

All lowercase - string.lower()

Titlecased = string.title()

To reverse the string you need to use a slice like so - Reversed = string[::-1]

More on slices here - https://www.pythoncentral.io/how-to-slice-listsarrays-and-tuples-in-python/

Once you have the strings you need to put them into a tuple and return them, you were printing them in your example, this is not the same thing. Returning the value just returns it to the console, if you were to print it you would call the following -

print(stringcases())

You can shorten this into 2 lines though with the following - 

def stringcases(string):
    return (string.upper(), string.lower(), string.title(), string[::-1])
Istvan Nonn
Istvan Nonn
2,092 Points
Istvan Nonn
Istvan Nonn
2,092 Points

Thanks Andrew, just so everybody has a clear idea about the code checker. So what I had is:

def stringcases(text):
    my_tuple = (text.lower(), text.upper(), text.title(), text[::-1])
    return my_tuple

you can see I did text.lower() method first and than text.upper(). But they ask for the upper string first than for lower so I switched the order

def stringcases(text):
    my_tuple = (text.upper(), text.lower(), text.title(), text[::-1])
    return my_tuple