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Replace second occurence of every character in a string, Python

I want to replace every second occurence of a character from only a string as input. Using only the .replace method.
For example:
input: asdasdasdasd
output should be: asdASDasdasd
def main(string):
for char in string:
string.replace(char, char.upper())
return string
Im relatively new to Python and I can't wrap my head around what to do.

Alternatively, you can use a dictionary and make the second occurrence of each character to uppercase:
def upper_case_second_occurrence(s):
d = {}
s = list(s)
for i, c in enumerate(s):
d[c] = d.get(c, 0) + 1
if d[c] == 2:
s[i] = c.upper()
return "".join(s)
if __name__ == "__main__":
print(upper_case_second_occurrence("aaa"))
print(upper_case_second_occurrence("aaaaaa"))
print(upper_case_second_occurrence("asdasdasdasd"))
Output:
aAa
aAaaaa
asdASDasdasd

Try this one:
def main(s):
l = []
string = ''
y = True
for a in s:
if a in l and y:
string+=a.upper()
l.remove(a)
if not len(l):
l = ''
continue
try:
l.append(a)
except AttributeError:
y = False
string+=a
return(string)
print(main('asdasdasdasd')) # → asdASDasdasd
print(main('aaa')) # → aAa
print(main('aaaaa')) # → aAaaa
print(main('AAA') # → AAA

Try using .count():
def main(string):
new_string = ''
for char in string:
if new_string.lower().count(char) == 1: # This line checks if the count of char is 1 or not. If yes, then it appends the uppercase letter of char
new_string += char.upper()
else:
new_string += char
return new_string
Output:
main('asdasdasdasd')
'asdASDasdasd'
main('aaaaaa')
'aAaaaa'
main('aaa')
'aAa'

Seperate and add two numbers from a string in python (user input)

I am trying to take a string from user input like ("what is 1 + 1") separate the letters from numbers and then add the 2 numbers. I have tried the below code buti still cant fiqure out how to add the two 1s.
def splitString(str):
alpha = ""
num = ""
special = ""
for i in range(len(str)):
if(str[i].isdigit()):
num = num+ str[i]
elif((str[i] >= 'A' and str[i] <= 'Z') or
(str[i] >= 'a' and str[i] <= 'z')):
alpha += str[i]
else:
special += str[i]
print(alpha)
print(num )
print(special)
if name == "main":
str = "what is 1 + 1"
splitString(str)

my_str = "what is 1 + 1"
x = []
str_list = my_str.split(" ")
for i in str_list:
if i.isDigit():
x.append(int(i))
sum_integers = 0
for i in x:
sum_integers += i
print(sum_integers)
try this, I did not run it.

The ".split" function will simplify your code a lot.
I encourage you to look at this link https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_split.asp

I might suggest using itertools.groupby as a starting point, e.g.:
>>> import itertools
>>> def split_alpha_num(s: str) -> list[str]:
... return ["".join(g).strip() for _, g in itertools.groupby(s, lambda s:(s.isalpha(), s.isdecimal()))]
...
>>> split_alpha_num("what is 1 + 1")
['what', '', 'is', '', '1', '+', '1']
From there, you could iterate over the string, discard elements that aren't either numbers or mathematical operators, and try to do something with what remains. The exact approach depends on the complexity of the inputs that you want your code to be able to handle; solving this type of problem in the very general case is not trivial.

you should make the variable num a list, and then add to that list all of the numbers
like that
def splitString(str):
alpha = ""
num = []
special = ""
for i in range(len(str)):
if(str[i].isdigit()):
num.append(int(str[i]))
elif((str[i] >= 'A' and str[i] <= 'Z') or
(str[i] >= 'a' and str[i] <= 'z')):
alpha += str[i]
else:
special += str[i]
print(alpha)
print(num)
print(special)
that way later you could use the special variable to determine what to do with thous numbers

Int and str changing every letter with error + EDIT: zero indexing eachword

My goal is to write a function which change every even letter into upper letter and odd to lower (space also count as a one element).
This is my code
def to_weird_case(s):
for i in s:
if len(i) % 2 == 0:
s[i] = i.upper() + s(i+1)
else:
s[i] = i.lower() + s(i+2)
return i
I think it should be quite correct, but it gives me error.
line 7, in to_weird_case
s[i] = i.lower() + s(str(i)+2)
TypeError: must be str, not int
EDIT:
I have a sugesstion but I don't know how to make it. I try it for myself and back here.
This needs to definitly explicietly state that the zero indexing uppercase is for each word.
Do you know guys how to make it?

So we can analyze your code and just explain what you typed:
def to_weird_case(s):
for i in s: # s is your string, and i is the actual character
if len(i) % 2 == 0: # if your length of the character can be divided by 2. Hmm this is weird
s[i] = i.upper() + s(i+1) # s[i] change a character in the string but you should provide an index (i) so an integer and not a character. But this is not supported in Python.
else:
s[i] = i.lower() + s(i+2)
return i # This will exit after first iteraction, so to_weird_case("this") will return "t".
So what you need to is first create a output string and fill that. And when iteration over s, you want the index of the char and the char value itself.
def to_weird_case(s):
output = ""
for i, myChar in enumerate(s):
if i % 2 == 0:
output += myChar.upper()
else:
output += myChar.lower()
return output
my_sentence = "abcdef"
print(to_weird_case(my_sentence))
And when you want to ignore spaces, you need to keep track of actual characters (excluding spaces)
def to_weird_case(s):
output = ""
count = 0
for myChar in s:
if myChar.isspace():
output += myChar
else:
if count % 2 == 0:
output += myChar.upper()
else:
output += myChar.lower()
count += 1
return output
my_sentence = "abc def"
print(to_weird_case(my_sentence))

Test this yourself
def to_weird_case(s):
for i in s:
print (i)
After doing this you will find that i gives you characters.
if len(i) % 2 == 0:
This line is incorrect as you are trying to find the length of a single character. len(s) would be much better.
So the code will be like
def to_weird_case(s):
s2 = "" #We create another string as strings are immutable in python
for i in range(len(s)):
if i % 2 == 0:
s2 = s2 + s[i].upper()
else:
s2 = s2 + s[i].lower()
return s2

From #RvdK analysis, you'ld have seen where corrections are needed. In addition to what has been pointed out, I want you to note that s[i] will work fine only if i is an integer, but in your case where (by assumption) i is a string you'll encounter several TypeErrors. From my understanding of what you want to do, it should go this way:
def to_weird_case(s):
for i in s:
if s.index(i) % 2 == 0:
s[s.index(i)] = i.upper() + s[s.index(i)]
elif s.index(i) % 2 == 1:
s[s.index(i)] = i.lower() + s[s.index(i)]
return i # or possibly return s

It is possible to do in a single line using a list comprehension
def funny_case(s):
return "".join([c.upper() if idx%2==0 else c.lower() for idx,c in enumerate(s)])
If you want to treat each word separately then you can split it up in to a list of words and "funny case" each word individually, see below code
original = "hello world"
def funny_case(s):
return "".join([c.upper() if idx%2==0 else c.lower() for idx,c in enumerate(s) ])
def funny_case_by_word(s):
return " ".join((funny_case(word) for word in s.split()))
print(funny_case_by_word(original))

Corrected code is as follows
def case(s):
txt=''
for i in range(len(s)):
if i%2==0:
txt+=s[i].upper()
else:
txt+=s[i].lower()
return txt
String assignment gives error in Python therefore i recommend considering my approach

When looping over elements of s, you get the letter itself, not its index. You can use enumerate to get both index and letter.
def to_weird_case(s):
result = ''
for index, letter in enumerate(s):
if index % 2 == 0:
result += letter.upper()
else:
result += letter.lower()
return result

correct code:
def to_weird_case(s):
str2 = ""
s.split() # through splitting string is converted to list as it is easy to traverse through list
for i in range(0,len(s)):
n = s[i] # storing value in n
if(i % 2 == 0):
str2 = str2 + n.upper()
else:
str2 = str2 + n.lower()
return str2
str1 = "hello world"
r = to_weird_case(str1)
print(r)

How to create a circular Alphabet in Python so that the letter after z is a and the letter before a is z

Is there a Function in Python to easily create a circular Alphabet, so that the letter after z is a and the letter before a is z?
I tried something with chr() and .join(Alphabet), but that didn't worked because i got the error message an integer is required (got type str).
for character in word:
if chr(Alphabet[Alphabet.find(character)) >= "z":
new_Alphabet = Alphabet.join(Alphabet)
elif chr(Alphabet[Alphabet.find(character)) <= "a":
new_Alphabet = Alphabet.join(Alphabet[:-1])

Use itertools.cycle ans string.ascii_lowercase:
from itertools import cycle
import string
circular_alphabet = cycle(string.ascii_lowercase)
That is an infinite iterator with the lowercase letters:
>>> "".join(next(circular_alphabet ) for _ in range(50))
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx'

I think you have to use circular queue. for more information please check this link.

Alternative (old fashion?) solution:
def cycle_letter(ch,up=True):
upper = 'A' <= ch <= 'Z'
ch = ch.lower()
letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
pos = letters.find(ch)
if pos < 0: return ch
length = len(letters)
pos += 1 if up else length-1
ans = letters[pos%length]
if upper: ans = ans.upper()
return ans
################################################################################
def cycle_string(s,up=True):
return ''.join(cycle_letter(ch,up) for ch in s)
################################################################################
if __name__ == '__main__': #Test
s = cycle_string('Hello, World!')
print(s)
s = cycle_string(s,False)
print(s)

In case it helps someone, this snippet shifts a word by the desired number of spaces. (e.g. shift_word('abcdef', 12) = 'opqrst' )
def shift_word(word: str, spaces: int) -> str:
first_ordinal = 97
last_ordinal = 122
alphabet_size = 26
return ''.join(chr((ord(letter) - last_ordinal - spaces - 1) % alphabet_size + first_ordinal) for letter in word)
It simply iterates over the word letter-by-letter, applies some modulo math to calculate the right "bucket" where the letter should fall, and makes sure the result is in the boundaries of ordinals 97-122 (letters a-z)

Python skipping my if statement

For some reason, this code doesn't work:
def pyglatin(word):
output = ""
wordlenedit = len(word)-1
wordlen = len(word)
fixer = 0
while fixer == 0:
for i in word:
if i == 'a' or i == 'e' or i == 'o' or i == 'i' or i == 'u':
fixer = 1
else:
wordlenedit -= 1
else:
output = word[wordlenedit:wordlen:1] + '-' + word[0:wordlenedit:1] + 'ay'
return output
To see the issues, click here. The problem appears to be that it's skipping the if statement that identifies vowels, but I'm not sure why. This results in some very odd outputs.

Your function does not work because you walk through the word, decrementing the splitting index for each consonant you encounter, starting at wordlenedit = len(word)-1.
At the end of your for loop, wordlenedit is equal to (length of the word) - 1 - (number of consonants). The function will only work if the first index of vowel in the word (starting at 0) is equal to the number of vowels - 1.
Also, the while loop is useless here, as you walk through the entire word in the for loop. It is even worse than that: the while loop will be an infinite loop if you have a word with no vowels (like "fly", as you don't check the "y")
This is a corrected version of your function, using the keyword break:
def pyglatin2(word):
output = ""
wordlenedit = 0
wordlen = len(word)
for l in word:
if l == 'a' or l == 'e' or l == 'o' or l == 'i' or l == 'u':
break
else:
wordlenedit += 1
output = word[wordlenedit:wordlen:1] + '-' + word[0:wordlenedit:1] + 'ay'
return output
However this function can be written in a much more concise/simple way, using Regular Expressions, like this:
import re
def pyglatin3(word):
# Get the first index of one of these: a, e, i, o, u
start = re.search("[aeiou]", word).start()
# Split the word
return word[start:] + "-" + word[0:start] + "ay"

If you want to do this without using regular expressions, the simplest way is to use enumerate:
def pyglatin(word):
for i, ch in enumerate(word):
if ch in 'aeiou':
return word[i:] + '-' + word[:i] + 'ay'