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Or a shorter version,<br>
<pre>a=lambda n: "".join([x[0].upper() for x in n.split()])
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Then it is just:<br>
<pre>>>> a('random access memory')
'RAM'
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Danny Yoo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Forwarding to tutor
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:32:02 -0500
From: Jason Massey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jason.massey@gmail.com"><jason.massey@gmail.com></a>
To: Danny Yoo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu"><dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu></a>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] printing an acronym
Something like this:
def acro(a):
... b = a.split()
... c = ""
... for d in b:
... c+=d[0].upper()
... return c
other than the horrible variable naming, it works.
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<pre wrap="">acro('international business machines')
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<pre wrap=""><!---->'IBM'
On 9/25/05, Danny Yoo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu"><dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu></a> wrote:
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