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Corey Buckley
1,257 PointsOutput is correct (I think) but I'm being told otherwise
Its putting in 'sillycase' and my output is 'sillYCASE' but its says its not getting the right output.
def sillycase(word):
half_point = len(word) // 2
word_as_list = list(word)
word_as_list[half_point:] = word[half_point:].upper()
word = "".join(word_as_list)
print(word)
1 Answer
John Lack-Wilson
8,181 PointsI think perhaps you're overthinking this a little.
This is what the challenge is looking for:
- The function takes ANY word as an argument and makes the first half lower case, and the second half of the word uppercase
- It returns the result of the modified word
Potentially the first step could be to change the first half of the word to lower case and store it in a variable. Heres a simple example:
def lower_first_half(word):
first_half = word[:len(word)//2].lower()
Then the second step could be to change the second half of the word in a variable as upper case using the .upper() method. The process for the second_half of the word would be the same except for changing where the word is sliced.
Finally you could return the concatenation of these two halves.
Corey Buckley
1,257 PointsCorey Buckley
1,257 PointsChanged it so the it also changes the first half of the letters to .lower incase any of them are uppercase and returned the word at the end and it worked. Thanks alot! :D