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ronin512
ronin512

Reputation: 29

Capitalize letter function in python

I try to write a program with a function to capitalize every first letter in expression with the addition of one dot. For example if I write hello world the result must be H.W..

My program is:

def initials(Hello World):

    words = input.split(' ')
    initials_words = []
    for word in words:
        title_case_word = word[0].upper() 
        initials_words_words.append(title_case_word)
        output = '. '.join(initials_words)
    return (initials_words)

The compilers seems that does nootexit any error but when I try to give an exression such as:print (initials(Hello World) the compiler does not give me any result.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (3)

MSeifert
MSeifert

Reputation: 152647

I identified several problems:

  • You need to change your function signature to take a parameter called input. Because that's the variable you split. NB: input is also a built-in function so using a different variable name would be better.

  • Then you use initial_words_words instead of initial_words inside the loop.

  • You assign output but you don't use it, it should probably be outside the loop and also returned.

  • Not an issue but you don't need ( and ) when returning.

So a changed program would look like this:

def initials(my_input):

    words = my_input.split(' ')
    initials_words = []
    for word in words:
        title_case_word = word[0].upper() 
        initials_words.append(title_case_word + '.')
    output = ''.join(initials_words)  # or ' '.join(initials_words) if you want a seperator
    return output


print(initials('Hello World'))  # H.W.

Upvotes: 2

rd_nielsen
rd_nielsen

Reputation: 2459

This will do it:

def initials(input_text):
    return "".join(["%s." % w.upper()[0] for w in input_text.split()])

Upvotes: 2

Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 2044

I see an error when trying to run your code on the 6th line: initials_words_words.append(title_case_word).

NameError: name 'initials_words_words' is not defined

After Fixing that, the program worked fine. Try changing it to initials_words.append(title_case_word)

Upvotes: -1

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