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Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Pointssillycase()
def sillycase(g):
v = len(g)
p = v/2
p = round(p)
for i in range(len(g)):
if i < p:
print(g[i].lower())
else:
print(g[i].upper())
sillycase("Treehouse")
This was right from my interpreter but treehouse says it isn't in the python collections last question
[MOD: added ```python markdown formatting -cf]
4 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsIn your code you are printing the solution one character at a time to the console. To pass the challenge the function needs to return a single string that is the case-adjusted version of the input.
How would you store the first half of the word as lower(), and the trailing half as upper(), then join the two and return the value?
Hint: you can lowercase to a portion of a word using: first_half = g[:p].lower()
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Pointsdef sillycase(g):
v = len(g)
p = v/2
p = round(p)
first = g[:p].lower()
second = g[p:].upper()
print(first+second)
sillycase("Treehouse")
in my interpreter it returns kennEth which is correct
but treehouses interpreter returns Error: our function didn't return the right output. Got 'None', expected 'kennETH'.
[MOD added ```python markdown formatting -cf]
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsThe reason the code challenge got 'None' is because your function does not have a return statement. Change the print(first+second) to return first+second
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 PointsThat still doesn't explain why None was coming, because print worked fine in my interpreter
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsAll statements return something. When a function is called that does not have an explicit return statement, a return None is implied. So your sillycase() function may be printing but the grader is looking at the return value and seeing this default 'None' being returned. The grader does not look at what would be the console output. It instead looks the output of the executed test statements.
Try this in your console:
result = sillycase('Kenneth')
print(result)
The value of result is what the grader checks
Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Pointsso it is because of parsing, lol, i love the way things work, wow you really respond quickly !! :)
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsAlso, it looks like there is an indention issue with your
ifstatement.