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Avik Chakraborty
6,621 PointsMy function is not working.
def sillycase(word): return word[:int(len(word)/2)].lower() + word[-int(len(word)/2):].upper()
def sillycase(word):
return word[:int(len(word)/2)].lower() + word[-int(len(word)/2):].upper()
2 Answers
Afloarei Andrei
5,163 Pointstypo error at "......+ word[-int....." remove the '-'
Avik Chakraborty
6,621 Pointsi put it on purpose to make a negetive value. example --> [-2:0] for the last two elements
Afloarei Andrei
5,163 Pointsyou'r code works if a word can be break in exactly 2 peaces like 'word', but if you have a word like 'treehouse' and you do a len('treehouse') / 2 the result will be 4. so your code will print treeOUSE because [-4:] is telling python to print only the las 4 characters from 'treehouse' and [4:] is telling python to print all the characters from the 4th till the end.