Question

Write a Python program to capitalize first and last letters of each word of a given

Answer 1

Answer:

def capitalize(s):

s, result = s.title(), ""

for word in s.split():

result += word[:-1] + word[-1].upper() + " "

return result[:-1] #To remove the last trailing space.

print capitalize("i like cats")

Output

Answer 2

I recently solved this question on hackerrank, it is tricky but if you think, it is simple.

s = input()

def duplicates(lst, item):

       return [i for i, x in enumerate(lst) if x == item]

   s = list(s)

   space_indexes = duplicates(s,' ')

   s[0] = s[0].upper()

   for x in space_indexes:

       index = int(x)

       s[index+1] = s[index+1].upper()

   

   s = ''.join(s)

   print( s)

I basically checked for the indexes of the spaces in splitted list and then capitalized all the characters right after the space.

But, I used s[0] = s[0].upper() because the first word should always be capital.

Hope it helps! :)