I have tried and errored a reasonable amount of times
Seymore4Head
Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid
Sat Aug 30 17:48:48 EDT 2014
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:21:40 +0100, Mark Lawrence
<breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>On 30/08/2014 19:48, Tim Chase 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
>>
>
>For the OP use the interactive prompt to see for yourself. Compare:-
> >>> 'no'.isupper
><built-in method isupper of str object at 0x0000000003D14FB8>
> >>> 'no'.isupper()
>False
> >>>
That would work now, but I didn't even know no.isupper() was command
until 15 min ago. :)
I have been told that one is a method and the other calls a method. I
still have to learn exactly what that means. I'm getting there.
Thanks
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