I found the following challenge online:

Create a function that takes a string and returns that string with the first half lowercased and the last half uppercased.

eg: foobar == fooBAR

If it is an odd number then 'round' it up to find which letters to uppercase.

That sounded easy enough but I found the last requirement a little tricky. Eventually this is what I came up with:

def sillycase(silly):
 length=len(silly)
 firstHalf = silly[:length / 2 + (length % 2)].lower()
 secondHalf = silly[length / 2 + (length % 2):].upper()
 return firstHalf + secondHalf 

but that seems repetitive and inefficient.

What could I have done to make it slicker, without sacrificing readability? I was actually a little surprised python didn't have a built in method to split a string in half.

I found the following challenge online:

Create a function that takes a string and returns that string with the first half lowercased and the last half uppercased.

eg: foobar == fooBAR

If it is an odd number then 'round' it up to find which letters to uppercase.

That sounded easy enough but I found the last requirement a little tricky. Eventually this is what I came up with:

def sillycase(silly):
 length=len(silly)
 firstHalf = silly[:length / 2 + (length % 2)].lower()
 secondHalf = silly[length / 2 + (length % 2):].upper()
 return firstHalf + secondHalf 

but that seems repetitive and inefficient.

What could I have done to make it slicker, without sacrificing readability? I was actually a little surprised python didn't have a built in method to split a string in half.