Is there a .tolower() for a string??

[Amy]

I have a string say

a = "Hello how are YOU"

I want to end up with

a = "hello how are you'

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

Thanks.

[KefX]

>Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

"If you can't find it, it's probably in section two of the library docs."
(Hint: strings are a sequence type.)

- Kef

[Mark Hahn]

I have a string say

a = "Hello how are YOU"

I want to end up with

a = "hello how are you'

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

'aBc'.lower()

'abc'

[Colin Brown]

"Amy" <se*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a string say

a = "Hello how are YOU"

I want to end up with

a = "hello how are you'

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

Thanks.

a.lower()

[Peter Otten]

Amy wrote:

I have a string say

a = "Hello how are YOU"

I want to end up with

a = "hello how are you'

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

dir("")

will give you all str attributes. The most promising is lower, so let's try:

a = "LOWER"
a.lower() 'lower' a 'LOWER'

You might not have expected the last outcome. This is because the lower()
method does not change the original string but creates a new one that is
all lowercase. Strings are "immutable", i. e. cannot be changed once they
are created. To get the desired effect, you need to "rebind" a:
a = a.lower()
a

'lower'

Peter

[Arnaud-F. FAUSSE]

look at .lower()
I hope it helps
AF

"Amy" <se*******@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
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I have a string say

a = "Hello how are YOU"

I want to end up with

a = "hello how are you'

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

Thanks.

[Wojtek Walczak]

Dnia 26 Nov 2003 10:57:32 -0800, Amy napisa³(a):
[...]

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

print ''.lower.__doc__

S.lower() -> string

Return a copy of the string S converted to lowercase.
Read the docs!

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[Duncan Booth]

Wojtek Walczak <gm*****@hacker.pl> wrote in
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Dnia 26 Nov 2003 10:57:32 -0800, Amy napisa³(a):
[...]

Isn't there a built in method for changing a string to lowercase?

print ''.lower.__doc__ S.lower() -> string

Return a copy of the string S converted to lowercase.
Read the docs!

Also, you could have said 'learn to use the help command, its more
convenient than printing __doc__':
help("".lower)

Help on built-in function lower:

lower(...)
S.lower() -> string

Return a copy of the string S converted to lowercase.

Another command the OP might have found useful would be help(""), or
help(str) which tell you all about the string methods.

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