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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Slices sillyCase

Posted by Victor Katsande
Victor Katsande
3,094 Points

help with this one also. Slicing a string

Here is the full 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, //.

sillycase.py 
def sillycase(string):
    stringy = list(string)
    string_size = len(stringy)
    half_string = int(string_size/2)
    first_half = stringy[:half_string + 1]
    second_half = stringy[half_string:]
    first_lower = first_half.lower()
    second_upper = second_half.upper()
    final_listy = first_lower + second_upper
    string = "".join(final_listy)
    return string

1 Answer

Ollie Webster
Ollie Webster
5,035 Points
Ollie Webster
Ollie Webster
5,035 Points

I just tried it in workspaces and it gives a bit more detail about what's going wrong. Basically, you can't do .lower() in line 7 and .upper() in line 8 since you are working on a list. Also there was some mismatch with the counting the halfway point. This is what I got:

def sillycase(string):
    stringy = list(string)
    string_size = len(stringy)
    half_string = int(string_size/2)
    first_half = "".join(stringy[:half_string])
    second_half = "".join(stringy[half_string:])
    first_lower = first_half.lower()
    second_upper = second_half.upper()
    final_stringy = first_lower + second_upper
    return final_stringy