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Python

Posted by abrar hamzah
abrar hamzah
199 Points

Strings

Here is the code,

import sys

inputCheck=False

acceptableCharacters="MUI"

while inputCheck==False: initStr=input("Please input an MU string:") for char in initStr: if char in acceptableCharacters: inputCheck=True else: inputCheck=False answer=initStr rule="" while rule !='q': rule=input('Select a rule(1-4) or q to quit:') if rule == '1': if initStr[-1] is 'I': initStr += 'U' if rule is '2': initStr += initStr[1:] if rule is '3': if "III" in initStr: rule3ind = int(input("State starting position of substring III you want to replace:")) - 1 initStr = initStr[:rule3ind] + "U" + initStr[rule3ind + 3:] print("New String is:", initStr) if rule is '4': if "UU" in initStr: initStr = initStr.replace('UU', '') else: pass

print('Your new string is "' + initStr + '"')

and I wanted to be able to delete UU(in rule 4) based on an input from the user. for example: if the string is MUUIUU, i want it so that the user can delete either of them, not both UU.

Sameer Zahid
Sameer Zahid
5,967 Points

Can you provide an example code to elaborate more?

abrar hamzah
abrar hamzah
199 Points

Sameer Zahid I've updated the question