sillyCASE

Question

I need you to create a new function for me.

This one will be named sillycase and it'll take a single string as an argument.

sillycase should return the same string but the first half should be lowercased and the second half should be uppercased.

For example, with the string "Treehouse", sillycase would return "treeHOUSE".

Don't worry about rounding your halves, but remember that indexes should be integers. You'll want to use the int() function or integer division, //.

I'm curious on how people solved this challenge. So if you solved this challenge and want to share your code below that would be great because I want to see how people approached this challenge. I believe that it would improve my knowledge if I see how other people solved this problem.

Thanks!

====================>THE CODE BELOW WORKS FINE<===================

def sillycase(word):
    lenghts = len(word)
    quick_math = int(lenghts / 2)
    answer_1 = word[:-quick_math]
    answer_2 = word[quick_math:]
    return answer_1.lower() + answer_2.upper()

Answer 1 · 2018-07-12T19:31:50Z

July 12, 2018 7:31pm

My solution:

def sillycase(string):
    midway = (len(string) // 2) + 1
    return string[:midway].lower() + string[midway:].upper()

Answer 2 · 2018-07-12T21:07:40Z

July 12, 2018 9:07pm

The code above has a stray hyphen on the line where "answer_1" is assigned, making the stop value negative. Remove that hyphen and it will pass the challenge.

And my solution was similar to Alex's except I didn't add one (does it actually work that way?):

def sillycase(word):
    half = len(word) // 2
    return word[:half].lower() + word[half:].upper()

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