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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Jariel Arias
Jariel Arias
1,549 Points
Posted by Jariel Arias
Jariel Arias
1,549 Points

This should definitely work :/ I tried it on sumblime and works fine. Why wont it be accepted?

How did you solve this problem?

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(p):
  first = len(p) / 2
  y = p[0:first].lower() + p[first:].upper()
  return y

print(sillycase('Treehouse'))

1 Answer

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points
Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points

Hi Jariel,

This code challenge wants you to use the round() function, as per the first comment. By using round(), you'll avoid storing a float number in your first variable, since the "treehouse" string is an odd amount of characters.

round(len(p) / 2)

Then you won't have to write the 0 in [0:first].lower()

Hope this helps!