That was it! Thanks a lot! I was also trying to output the acronym in caps so I was entering string.upper (acronym) like whats in the book and kept getting a "'tuple' object is not callable" error message. Just for the heck of it I tried it acronym.upper() and it worked! I thought it could work both ways?
Paul Rudin wrote: > Shawn Minisall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'm trying to write a program that gets the first letter of every word >> of a phrase and prints it on screen. I'm having problems with it. >> I'm thinking a for loop would be good since I don't know the exact >> number of words the user is going to enter, but after that I get >> confused. How do I tell python to just goto the beg of each word in >> the phrase and include it in the acronym? Am I on the right track? >> >> for a in string.split(phrase) >> acronym = phrase [0] >> acronym = acronym + 1 >> > > > How about: > > for a in phrase.split(): > print a[0] > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
