When you run the code below, Python will throw the runtime exception TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
.
text = "hello world" if text[0].islower(): text[0] = text[0].upper()
This happens because in Python strings are immutable, and can’t be changed in place.
The solution is to use one of Python’s built in functions for string manipulation. In this particular case, capitalize()
is what you’ll need.
text = "hello world" text = text.capitalize()
Note that capitalize
creates a new string and returns that new string. That’s why we have to assign that new string to the text
variable. In the example below, text
would remain unchanged, and capital
would have the result of capitalizing the text
variable.
text = "hello world" capital = text.capitalize()
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