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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Slices sillyCase

Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points
Posted by Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points

sillyCase(Sorry for spamming :()

Hello once again Dx I'm sorry, I feel bad for spamming questions. But can someone please explain to me how I'm supposed to do this and exactly why this doesn't work? I looked and everybody else has super long methods and I don't get what else I have to do and why this doesn't work :( I feel like I'm not really learning much from the videos, only when people explain to me the coding challenges and stuff

sillycase.py 
def sillycase(string):
    balla = int(string / 2)
    string = ''.join(new_string[:balla].lower(), new_string[balla:].upper())
    return string
Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points
Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points

Oops, I forgot to change the new_string to string. But it's still not working xc

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There are two issue:

  1. You need to divide the length of string by two in your first line, not divide the string itself.

  2. The join method is used to convert a list to a string, but what you give it is not actually a list. You just give it two strings as separate arguments.

You could solve this issue by placing the two strings inside a list by wrapping them in square brackets like this:

def sillycase(string):
    balla = int(len(string) / 2) # Use len method to get length of string and divide that by 2
    string = ''.join([string[:balla].lower(), string[balla:].upper()]) # Pass in a list with the two strings
    return string

That would work, but it's more complex than it needs to be. Since you have two strings you can just concatenate them together using the + operator. You don't need to join them or put them in a list or anything like that.

Like this:

def sillycase(string):
    balla = int(len(string) / 2) # Use len method to get length of string and divide that by 2
    string = string[:balla].lower() + string[balla:].upper() # Concatonate the two strings together
    return string
Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points
Joshua Senneff
Joshua Senneff
1,159 Points

Oh, Okedoke, Thank you so much!