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Python

Posted by Larissa Banitt
Larissa Banitt
681 Points

tie a string in Python

Hi, so I"m wondering how to tie together to parts of a string with Python. This is my example: return string[midpoint:].lower + string[:midpoint].upper

They said there was an error in that part of the code, but I don't know where it is.

1 Answer

Trevor Currie
Trevor Currie
9,289 Points
Trevor Currie
Trevor Currie
9,289 Points

Larissa,

I'm assuming that this what you want to do:

string = "This is a string."
midpoint = len(string)/2
new_string = string[midpoint:].lower() + string[:midpoint].upper()

Notice that the both upper and lower have parentheses following them. They are methods attached to strings, not attributes, so they need to be called to be used.