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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Jonathan Shedd
Jonathan Shedd
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Posted by Jonathan Shedd
Jonathan Shedd
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What is wrong with this function that makes a string lowercase in the first half and uppercase in the second half?

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong with this particular challenge. Does it have something to do with the round function? Or is it the "len(str)/2" part of the code? It keeps returning the exception that slice indexes must be integers. All help is appreciated! :)

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):
    return(string[0:round(len(string)/2, 0)].lower() + string[round(len(string)/2, 0):].upper())

1 Answer

Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

Your return string is different from mine:

def sillycase(string):
  midpoint = round(len(string)/2)
  return string[:midpoint].lower() + string[midpoint:].upper()