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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices sillyCase

Brent Liang
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Brent Liang
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What's wrong with this code?

"Bash: command not found"

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_given):
    lower_case = string_given.lower[:int(round(0.5*len(string_given)))]
    upper_case = string_given.upper[int(round(0.5*len(string_given))+1):]
    result_string = lower_case + upper_case
    return result_string
BRIAN WEBER
BRIAN WEBER
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BRIAN WEBER
BRIAN WEBER
21,570 Points

You need to call .lower() after you have sliced the string. Also, you have a space between your function name and the parentheses where you type the argument, and you don't need to convert your rounded number to an integer since the round function already does that for you. See the code below:

def silly_case(string_given):
    lower_case = string_given[:round(len(string_given)*0.5)].lower()
    upper_case = string_given[round(len(string_given)*0.5):].upper()
    result_string = lower_case + upper_case
    return result_string

1 Answer

Alx Ki
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Alx Ki
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Answering your question "What's wrong with this code":

  1. .lower() should be used as "string".lower() it can't be used with string's []
  2. You don't need +1.
  3. (Optional) PEP8 spacing recommendations.
  4. All of the rest is right. Just move .lower() and .upper() to the end, remove +1, and it works!
def sillycase(string_given):
    lower_case = string_given[:int(round(0.5 * len(string_given)))].lower()
    upper_case = string_given[int(round(0.5 * len(string_given))):].upper()
    result_string = lower_case + upper_case
    return result_string