[Tutor] A very simple question

[Raymond Hettinger]

def checkIfOnlyLower(list):
     for item in list:
          if not item[0].islower():
            return 0
    return 1

Raymond Hettinger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole Seitz" <Nicole.Seitz@urz.uni-hd.de>
To: <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: [Tutor] A very simple question


Hi there!

I'd like to write a function that gets a list , checks if there are only
strings in the list starting with a lowercase letter and then returns 1 if
only lowercase, 0 if not.
How can I do that?

example list:

myList = [ "abc", "def", "Cde"]

If I write:

def checkIfOnlyLower(list):
     for item in list:
          if item[0].islower():
             return 1
         else:
            return 0

the function will return 1 as soon as it comes to the first string starting
with a lowercase letter.But that's not what I want.

Hope you can help me.

Thanks in advance.


Nicole


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