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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Posted by Ryan Lail
Ryan Lail
4,386 Points

My slices code won't work

So here's the code. The first half of the string should be lower cased and the last capitalized. Any help?

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):
  half = len(string)/2
  first = string[:half]
  second = string[half:].upper()
  return first + second

1 Answer

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points
Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

You're close. "rounded with round()". The issue you are having is that the half variable isn't coming out to be an integer, so you need to round it.

half = round(len(string) / 2)

Also, your first half is missing .lower() :)

Hope this helps you out!