Hackerrank Python Challenge: Capitalize The First letter of each word in a String in Python

Question

Capitalize!

You are asked to ensure that the first and last names of people begin with a capital letter in their passports. For example, alison heck should be capitalized correctly as Alison Heck.

Given a full name, your task is to capitalize the name appropriately.

Input Format

A single line of input containing the full name,

Constraints

0 < len(S) < 1000
The string consists of alphanumeric characters and spaces.

Note: in a word only the first character is capitalized. Example 12abc when capitalized remains 12abc.

Output Format

Print the capitalized string,

Sample Input

chris alan

Sample Output

Chris Alan

Zenonymous · Answer 1 · 2022-10-07T09:05:08.440

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SOLVED

s = '132 456 Wq  m ethiopia'
s_lists = s.split(' ')
name = ''
for s_list in s_lists:
    if len(s_list) > 0:
        if s_list[0].isdigit():
            name = name + s_list + ' '
        else:
            name = name + s_list[0].upper() + s_list[1:] + ' '
    else:
        name = name + ' '

print(name[:-1])

Hackerrank Test cases

Result

132 456 Wq M Ethiopia

edited Oct 07 '22 at 09:05

answered Oct 06 '22 at 12:10

Zenonymous

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SO is not supposed to be a place to post arbitrary code puzzles and solutions. – luk2302 Oct 06 '22 at 12:14
`str.title` will lowercase every subsequent character after the first letter. So this might not work as a general solution – inspectorG4dget Oct 06 '22 at 12:15
Give me one test case that will not work. – Zenonymous Oct 06 '22 at 12:47
Why split the string and go through each part? print('132 456 Wq m ethiopia'.title()) gives the same result except that it retains the double space in the original string. – shawn caza Oct 06 '22 at 13:19
Not working for input: "adam mcSomewhat" because the s will be lowercased. – luk2302 Oct 06 '22 at 15:54
What about now? – Zenonymous Oct 07 '22 at 09:05

Hackerrank Python Challenge: Capitalize The First letter of each word in a String in Python

Capitalize!

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