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Aamir Mirza
25,077 PointsSillycase - conflicting instructions
Hi,
In the comments inside the code, the code challenge tells us to split the first half of the word into lower case, and the second half into uppercase. The example it gives is Treehouse, which turns into treeHOUSE, splitting the odd-number-lengthed word in favour of the second half.
However, when you submit your code, it says it expects the string "Kenneth", to turn into "kennETH", splitting in favour of the first half (as opposed to the second half like treeHOUSE). This was a simple fix for me, but you might want to change the instructions to say that "Treehouse" should turn into "TreehOUSE" instead of "TreeHOUSE". :)
# 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(streng):
half = int(len(streng)/2)
first_half = streng[:half].lower()
second_half = streng[half:].upper()
streng = first_half + second_half
return streng
3 Answers
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 PointsHello Aamir,
The comments on the exercise says: # The first half of the string, rounded with round(), should be lowercased.
So you have to use the round() instead int()
def sillycase(item):
half = round(len(item)/2)
return (item[:half ].lower()) + (item[half :].upper())
Boris Ivan Barreto
6,838 PointsI have just run the code in the workspace and this is what I got: Treehouse Result: treeHOUSE
It definitely works as in the instructions
Ryan Burton
14,334 PointsI ended up doing all the steps in 1 giant line
def sillycase(string):
return string[:round(len(string)/2)].lower() + string[round(len(string)/2)
:].upper()
Aamir Mirza
25,077 PointsAamir Mirza
25,077 PointsDoh! Don't know how but I completely missed that. That would definitely make the code pass properly. However, the original instructions are still incorrect - since if you passed in "Treehouse" for item, it would return "treehOUSE" (item[:5] and item[5:]) instead of "treeHOUSE" as the code challenge instructions say,