How to print the (word) in capital letters and with a space inbetween using a function?-CodePudding

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I keep making queries that print only the first letter capitalized, the first letter the word, etc

I am wanting output that looks like: T H I S

This is my code, and it has to be a function (and the word is defined later)

    def add_space_and_capitalize(word):
for letter in word:
    new_word = ' '   letter.upper()
    return new_word

CodePudding user response：

You can alternatively convert the string to a list which can be iterated in the same way but then the .join() method can be used where " " is the separator. This also avoids the space at the start that other methods may cause. Hope this helps :)

def add_space_and_capitalize(word):
    chars=list(word)
    for i in range(len(chars)):
        chars[i]=chars[i].upper()
    new_word= " ".join(chars)
    return new_word

CodePudding user response：

you need to create a variable before the for loop instead of creating a new variable when the loop is running, because you are losing your last value that you stored

def add_space_and_capitalize(word):
    new_word = ""
    for letter in word:
        new_word  = ' '   letter.upper()
    return new_word
    
print(add_space_and_capitalize('this'))

OUTPUT

T H I S

CodePudding user response：

You can solve this by assigning an empty string inside the function and adding the uppercase letters inside the empty string to make all the letters uppercase with a space.

The function is as follows:

def add_space_and_capitalize(word):
   return_string = ""
   for letter in word:
     return_string  = str(letter.upper())   " "
   return return_string

message = 'python is fun' ## Provide a string
print(add_space_and_capitalize(message))

This will output the following:

P Y T H O N I S F U N

Hope this helps.