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leonardbode
Courses Plus Student 4,011 PointsReport a problem in challenge task
The assignment says:
Create a function named stringcases that takes a single string but returns a tuple of different string formats. The formats should be: All uppercase All lowercase Titlecased (first letter is capitalized) Reversed There are str methods for all but the last one.
My code is: def stringcases(string): return string.upper(), string.lower(), string.capitalize(), string[::-1]
For "Hi my name is Bob." my function returns:
('HI MY NAME IS BOB.', 'hi my name is bob.', 'Hi my name is bob.', '.boB si eman ym iH')
Why and how is this wrong?
def stringcases(string):
return string.upper(), string.lower(), string.capitalize(), string[::-1]
2 Answers
Torsten Lundahl
2,570 PointsThe method capitalize() only capitalizes the first letter in the very first word of the string. Use the title() method instead to capitalize the first letter in every word.
def stringcases(string):
return string.upper(), string.lower(), string.title(), string[::-1]
leonardbode
Courses Plus Student 4,011 PointsThank you, I thought only the first letter of the entire string needed to be capitalized.