Question

I want to make a function that would uncapitalize capitalized letters.

I was thinking I could do
if x in caps
where caps is a list of all the capital letters, and I had it return the position in the list that letter is in, I could have it replace itself with the lowercase.

How would I do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Why not use the built in “lower”

a = 'aBcDeFg'
print a.lower() # abcdefg

If that doesn’t work, you can always iterate and then use ord and chr:

"".join(
  # if i is between A and Z change it to between a and z
  [chr(ord(i)+32) if 65<= ord(i) <= 90 
  # otherwise leave it as is
  else i for i in a])