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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Posted by David Wright
David Wright
4,437 Points

silly.py

Not sure how to proceed

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 sillycase(string):
  string_length = len(string)
  half_string = string_length / 2
  first_half = string[:half_string]
  result = first_half.extend(string[half_string:])
  return result

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

You are very close. A few corrections to you code. extend() works on lists but not on strings. 

def sillycase(string):
  string_length = len(string)
  # need to round when length is odd
  half_string = round(string_length / 2)
  first_half = string[:half_string]
  # lower first half and upper second half 
  result = first_half.lower() + string[half_string:].upper()
  return result
David Wright
David Wright
4,437 Points

Thanks Chris! After struggling through splitting up the first_half and second_half I totally forgot to .lower() the first half and .upper() the second half. Haha

I was also wondering about issues that would arise from input(string) with an odd number of elements. So, "round()" will takes care of this?

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Yes. By default round() rounds to the nearest integer. 3.5 becomes 4, etc.