Help with code-lists and strings

[Rob Richardson]

You take a sentence and break it up into words, storing it in a list
named "list".  Then, for each word in the list, you set list2 to a
boolean value of true or false, depending on the result of isupper() and
istitle().  Note that the variable "list2" does not refer to a list.  It
refers to whatever the result of the "or" operation is.  Finally, you
print out the word from the original, unordered list.  You never do
anything at all with list2.

 

At least, that what I think is happening, but I am by no means a Python
expert.

 

Here's a suggestion:  Try writing out what you want to do in plain
English, but formatted sort of like a Python script would be.  (This is
generally called "pseudocode".  It looks like a computer language, but
it isn't.)  Once you've got that, use it as a framework to write your
Python code.

 

Good luck!

 

RobR

 

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From: python-list-bounces+rob.richardson=rad-con.com at python.org
[mailto:python-list-bounces+rob.richardson=rad-con.com at python.org] On
Behalf Of Cathy James
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:57 PM
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Subject: Help with code-lists and strings

 

Dear all,

 

You folks will probably hear from me more often in the next few months.
I hope some of you have time help me on occassion. Actually, a volunteer
mentor would be greatly appreciated:)

 

I am learning python and came across an excercise where i need to use
lists to strip words from a sentence; starting with those containing one
or more uppercase letters, followed by words with lower case letters.
When I try, i get words in the order they were written:(  I tried if
statements, but unsuccessful. This has to be very easy to you experts,
but I am clueless ( still rocket science to me) :(

 

#Below is my shot at it:

 

s=input("Write a sentence: ")
list=s.strip().split()
for word in list:
    list2 = (word.isupper() or word.istitle())
    print (word)

else print (word)

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