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RelaxAjax

Reputation: 51

How to randomly uppercase characters in a string?

I want a way of grab an string variable and randomize which letters are uppercase, like so:

upperRandomizer("HelloWorld") == "HeLLoWORlD"

I've tried this so far:

for p in strVar:
        result = ""
        if random.choice((True, False)):
            result += p.upper()
        else:
            result += p

But the code only spits out the last letter of the string variable. I tried to use the join() method without success. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 560

Answers (4)

Sam Mason
Sam Mason

Reputation: 16194

At the risk of too much magic, I'd do something like:

from random import choice

def caseRandomizer(text):
    return ''.join(map(choice, zip(text.lower(), text.upper())))

i.e:

  1. get lower and upper case versions of the text
  2. use zip to iterate over them both character by character
  3. map(choice, ...) randomly picks either lower or upper character
  4. ''.join(...) turns the iterator back into a string

Warning, I subsequently realised this doesn't work in general. E.g. 'ß', the lowercase German character called eszett, turns into 'SS' when made uppercase so the upper and lower case versions could go "out of sync".

A version that would work is:

from random import choices

def caseRandomizer(text):
    return ''.join(fn(c) for (fn, c) in zip(choices((str.lower, str.upper), k=len(text)), text))

Upvotes: 0

Synthaze
Synthaze

Reputation: 6090

Here you get a oneliner:

import random

def upperRandomizer(string):
    return "".join([char.upper() if random.randint(0,1) == 0 else char for char in string])

print (upperRandomizer("HelloWorld"))

Output:

HeLLoWorlD

Upvotes: 2

PieCot
PieCot

Reputation: 3639

import random

upperRandomizer = lambda s: ''.join(random.choice((str.upper, str.lower))(x) for x in s)

for _ in range(5):
    print(upperRandomizer('HelloWorld'))

Output:

HELlOwORlD
hELlOWoRLd
HELlowORLd
HELLOwOrLd
HeLLoWorlD

Upvotes: 1

J Iguadeza
J Iguadeza

Reputation: 77

Move your result variable outside of the loop. Right now, you are recreating it every time you loop through a character in the list.

result = ""
for p in strVar:
    if random.choice((True, False)):
        result += p.upper()
    else:
        result += p

Upvotes: 2

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