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mamadou diene
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,971 PointsI need you to create a new function for me. This one will be named sillycase and it'll take a single string as an argum
HELP
def sillycase("lovecoding"):
first_half = lovecoding[0:5]
second_half = lovecoding[5:]
return first_half.lowercase + second_half.uppercase
1 Answer
Valeriya Romashchenko
11,841 PointsHi,
you need to create a function and pass an argument. The argument will be a string. You don't need to pass an actual your "custom" string because otherwise, your function is not going to work for any random string, it is not universal. The same for the indexes you used inside of the function. It won't work for the word "blah". Check out the syntax for the functions that convert the letter into the upper- and/or lowercase. And also in your code, you are passing the "lovecoding" as a string, but inside of the function, you are using it as a variable. This doesn't make any sense for the python, it just throws you an error, that lovecoding is undefined.
Try this, it passed the challenge. You can use fewer lines of code, though.
def sillycase(string):
middle = len(string)//2
first_part = string[0: middle].lower()
second_part = string[middle:].upper()
result = first_part + second_part
return result