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John Jordan
880 PointsIntegers for index
It is telling me that I don't have integer indexes, but I used '//' I also tried this with the 'int()' function. Where is my error?
Thanks
def sillycase(word):
halfpoint = len(word)//2
word[halfpoint:] = word[halfpoint:].upper()
word[:halfpoint] = word[:halfpoint].lower()
return word
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThat is actually a generic error message that the challenge gives whenever your code does not work properly. The actual issue with your code is the fact that you try to modify the contents of the word string. Strings are immutable (meaning you cannot directly change them) so trying to modify the contents of the string like you are doing in your code is not valid.
If you either use separate variables to hold the two parts and then concatenate them like this:
def sillycase(word):
halfpoint = len(word)//2
upper_half = word[halfpoint:].upper()
lower_half = word[:halfpoint].lower()
return lower_half + upper_half
Or just concatenate the slices directly like this:
def sillycase(word):
halfpoint = len(word)//2
return word[:halfpoint].lower() + word[halfpoint:].upper()
Then your code will pass.
John Jordan
880 PointsInteresting distinction between lists and strings. Thank you