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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Posted by dima Dima
dima Dima
901 Points

May I get some help, How do I solve that?

Create a function named sillycase that takes a string and returns that string with the first half lowercased and the las

silly.py 
# The first half of the string, rounded with round(), should be lowercased.
# The second half should be uppercased.
# E.g. "Treehouse" should come back as "treeHOUSE"
def silycase(list_1):
dima Dima
dima Dima
901 Points

and the second half with upper cased letters

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi there,

Your method needs to take a parameter which is the word we're going to play around with. I called mine word as I lack imagination.

Then, determine the length of word so you can find its half-way point. I assigned the first half and second half into different local variables; you don't need to do that, but I found it clearer. So, I have lower_half assigned the first part of the word (from character zero to half its length (rounded)). I do the same for upper_half to assign the last half of the word to it. For each of these, I've called lower() and upper() where required.

I then add the two together and return the result.

I hope that makes sense. My code isn't the prettiest, but it works - I am sure there are more elegant solutions out there.

Steve. 

def sillycase(word):
    lower_half = word[0:round(len(word)/2)].lower()
    upper_half = word[round(len(word)/2):].upper()
    return lower_half + upper_half
dima Dima
dima Dima
901 Points
dima Dima
dima Dima
901 Points

Thank you very much, it helped a lot!!