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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Letter Game Introduction

Posted by Jesse Chan
Jesse Chan
723 Points

start.lower? upper works as well

Hi I'm just curious as to why we put start.lower() == 'q': break I tried doing start.upper() == 'Q': break
and it works as well. I was just wondering why start() == 'q', without a .upper or.lower doesn't work.

thanks!

3 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

start() will produce an error due to the fact that start is not a method. The parenthesis tells Python that you want to call a method, which is fine for lower and upper since they are methods, but not for start itself as that is just a string variable.

This issue can be resolved by simply removing the parentheses so the comparison is simply start == 'q', though at that point you will run into the issue that james south mentioned. If a user enters a capital Q the loop won't break since q and Q are technically different letters as far as Python is concerned.

Jesse Chan
Jesse Chan
723 Points
Jesse Chan
Jesse Chan
723 Points

Thanks for the replies! makes sense, I will review all that.