[Tutor] printing an acronym (fwd)

[Allen John Schmidt, Jr.]

Or a shorter version,

a=lambda n: "".join([x[0].upper() for x in n.split()])

Then it is just:

>>> a('random access memory')
'RAM'





Danny Yoo wrote:

>Forwarding to tutor
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:32:02 -0500
>From: Jason Massey <jason.massey at gmail.com>
>To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] printing an acronym
>
>Something like this:
>
>def acro(a):
>... 	b = a.split()
>... 	c = ""
>... 	for d in b:
>... 		c+=d[0].upper()
>... 	return c
>
>other than the horrible variable naming, it works.
>
>  
>
>>>>acro('international business machines')
>>>>        
>>>>
>'IBM'
>
>On 9/25/05, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>  
>
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