Here are a couple of things to look at. You could take the phrase and separate it into a list of words using split()
- >>> p='this is a phrase'
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>>> p.split()
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['this', 'is', 'a', 'phrase']
Then you could use a
for loop to pull out the first letter of each word. Remember that the first letter of a string has an index of 0, second is 1, etc.
- >>> for w in p.split():
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... print w[0]
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...
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t
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i
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a
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p
In this example I just printed the letter, but you could build a new word out of it (lets use
a for acronym)
- >>> a=''
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>>> for w in p.split():
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... a=a+w[0]
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...
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>>> print a
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tiap
or if you wanted it all upper case
Some of these methods have been listed as deprecated in the python docs, which I don't study enough to know why. Could someone say where to look for the new methods, I understand that things like string.atof() became float() which makes sense to me. However I don't understand how to replace some of the others listed at http://docs.python.org/lib/node42.html. In this post I use string.upper(), what would be correct?
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