Dustan wrote: > Ola K wrote: > > Hi, > > I am pretty new to Python and I want to make a script that will search > > for the following options: > > 1) words made of uppercase characters -only- (like "YES") > > 2) words made of lowercase character -only- (like "yes") > > 3) and words with only the first letter capitalized (like "Yes") > > * and I need to do all these considering the fact that not all letters > > are indeed English letters. > > > > I went through different documention section but couldn't find a right > > condition, function or method for it. > > Suggestions will be very much appriciated... > > --Ola > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "considering the fact that not > all letters are indeed English letters"; you could mean you don't care > about the non-english characters, or you could mean you don't want any > non-english characters at all (so the function should return False in > that case). If the case is the former, there's a simple test for each: > > >>> word = 'hi' > >>> word.upper() == word # evaluates to True if the word is all caps > False > >>> word.lower() == word # evaluates to True if the word is all lowercase > True > >>> word.title() == word # evaluates to True if the word is in a title format > False > >>>
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