no string.downer() ?

[Asun Friere]

On Aug 28, 10:28 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:

> Out of the possible diagnoses (trolling, incredible stupidity, feeble
> joke attempt) of the cause of the ensuing upper/downer question, I'm
> going with the third.

Never ascribe to humour that which can be adequately explained by
increadible stupidity!  On the other hand given up/down vs. high/low,
upper/downer might appear logical to someone who doesn't know that
"downcase" is called 'lowercase.'