I have tried and errored a reasonable amount of times

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Sat Aug 30 16:20:56 EDT 2014


On 8/30/14 2:50 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:48:09 -0500, Tim Chase
> <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-08-30 14:27, Seymore4Head wrote:
>>> I really tried to get this without asking for help.
>>>
>>> mylist = ["The", "earth", "Revolves", "around", "Sun"]
>>> print (mylist)
>>> for e in mylist:
>>>
>>>   # one of these two choices should print something.  Since neither
>>> does, I am missing something subtle.
>>>
>>>      if e[0].isupper == False:
>>>          print ("False")
>>>      if e[0].isupper == True:
>>>          print ("True")
>>>
>>> I am sure in the first , third and fifth choices should be true.
>>> Right now, I am just testing the first letter of each word.
>>
>> There's a difference between e[0].isupper which refers to the method
>> itself, and e[0].isupper() which then calls that method.  Call the
>> method, and you should be good to go.
>>
>> -tkc
>>
> That works.
> Thanks
>

Also, instead of:

     if e[0].isupper() == False:
     if e[0].isupper() == True:

use:

     if not e[0].isupper():
     if e[0].isupper():

It's clearer and reads better.

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Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com




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