Answered Request for help with printing strings in Python

[CodingNovice]

Please see a directive which I am having trouble fulfilling:

# Use upper() on place: place_up
place_up = upper(place, place_up)

I received this error message:

NameError: name 'upper' is not defined

Please see the code in context, attached. There are probably more errors which I have not addressed. Many thanks in advance for your patience and wisdom.

 

[Johna]

I don't really know python, but I don't think that's how you use upper.

I think it should be like this (according to W3Schools):

place_up = place.upper()

 

[Johna]

Your last function (if those are called functions) doesn't look like it's going to print the number of o's.

Try this (https://www.delftstack.com/howto/python/occurrences-of-a-character-in-a-string-in-python):

print(place.count('o'))

I'm not sure if this should work, @didlly should know (I think).

 

[CodingNovice]

Many thanks, Johna! It certainly helps. Please see the attached screenshot of the shell after I entered your suggestions.

 

[Johna]

I think it should just be place_up = place.upper() and not place_up = place.upper(place). But maybe not idk.

 

[CodingNovice]

I think it should just be place_up = place.upper() and not place_up = place.upper(). But maybe not idk.

Thanks, Johna! Success! You just made my day.