Hands-on exercise – Strings

Put the lesson Strings into practice by writing a program yourself.

Exercise field

Clean up a material name

The problem

Material names copied from instrument files often have extra spaces and inconsistent capitals. The name below came out as " silicon carbide ".

Tidy it up, then print some information about the cleaned name.

Your program should

Remove the spaces at both ends and capitalise each word, giving Silicon Carbide.
Print the cleaned name.
Print First letter: S using indexing.
Print Length: 15 using len().

Expected output

Silicon Carbide
First letter: S
Length: 15

Your solution

Write your program below and press Run. Each run is checked against the expected output.

main.py

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Output

Press Run to see what your program prints.

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One possible solution. Other programs that print the same output are correct too.

solution.py

raw_name = "  silicon carbide  "material_name = raw_name.strip().title()print(material_name)print(f"First letter: {material_name[0]}")print(f"Length: {len(material_name)}")

Output

Silicon Carbide First letter: S Length: 15