How to change uppercase to lowercase in a string?

Question

The overall goal of this program is to count the occurrences of a word that the user inputs. To do this I need all of the words in this long string to be lowercase. I do not want to print the entire string with

print s.lower()

I just want this to actually change the string to lowercase without printing it out.

I don't think this is a bad question; it can be confusing when you don't know the difference between mutable and immutable objects. — Cody Piersall, Feb 14 '14 at 01:34
Perfect! For some reason using s = s.lower() wasn't working a few minutes ago, but it's fixed now! — user3295539, Feb 14 '14 at 01:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '14 at 01:28

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I don't know what language this is, but presumably, you have to do this:

s = s.lower()

answered Feb 14 '14 at 01:28

kabb

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 14 '14 at 01:56

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Just assign it to a new string.

lower = s.lower()

edited Feb 14 '14 at 01:56

jayelm

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answered Feb 14 '14 at 01:27

George Philip

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How to change uppercase to lowercase in a string?

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