change some lowercase letters to uppercase in string

python string python-3.x uppercase
Hanan N. picture Hanan N. · Nov 21, 2011 · Viewed 61.3k times · Source 
index = [0, 2, 5]
s = "I am like stackoverflow-python"
for i in index:
        s = s[i].upper()
print(s)

IndexError: string index out of range

I understand that in the first iteration the string, s, become just the first character, an uppercase "I" in this particular case. But, I have tried to do it without the "s = " , using swapchcase() instead, but it's not working.

Basically, I'm trying to print the s string with the index letters as uppercase using Python 3.X

Answer

Sven Marnach picture Sven Marnach · Nov 21, 2011

Strings are immutable in Python, so you need to create a new string object. One way to do it:

indices = set([0, 7, 12, 25])
s = "i like stackoverflow and python"
print("".join(c.upper() if i in indices else c for i, c in enumerate(s)))

printing

I like StackOverflow and Python

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