Name Formatting in Python with String Splits
I Have Gotten Mostly Through This Assignment but I Am Stuck as to Obtain the Proper Outputs. This Assignment Wishes That If the Inputs Are a Full Name, That...
I have gotten mostly through this assignment but I am stuck as to obtain the proper outputs.
This assignment wishes that if the inputs are a full name, that the outputs are "last name, first initial. last initial. If the input was Stacy Estel Graham, the expected output should be Graham, S.E.
"Many documents use a specific format for a person's name. Write a program whose input is:
firstName middleName lastName
and whose output is:
lastName, firstInitial.middleInitial."
full_name = input()
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
last_name= mod_name.pop(-1)
mod_name.join('.')
print(last_name)
print(mod_name)
I am completely lost on how to proceed.
4 Answers
You need to use '.'.join() to get the initials added.
To extract only the first char from the name, you can do mod_name[i][:1] where i is the index from 0 until last name - 1.
You can do something like this:
full_name = input('Enter your full name :')
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
temp = '.'.join([mod_name[i][0] for i in range (0, len(mod_name) - 1)])
if temp == '':
print (mod_name[-1])
else:
print (mod_name[-1] + ', ' + temp + '.')
Here are some of the sample runs:
Enter your full name :Stacy Estel Sugar Graham
Graham, S.E.S.
Enter your full name :Stacy Estel Graham
Graham, S.E.
Enter your full name :Stacy Graham
Graham, S.
Enter your full name :Graham
Graham
Use:
def format_name(name):
names = name.split()
return f"{names[-1]}, {''.join([f'{i[0]}.' for i in names[:-1]])}"
Examples:
format_name('Stacy Estel Graham')
# > 'Graham, S.E.'
format_name('Randall McGrath')
# > 'McGrath, R.'
this code help you,but middle name is must for every person for creating your desire output
import re
s="Stacy Estel Graham"
words=s.split()
k=re.findall("[A-Z]",s)
p=words[-1]+","+k[0]+"."+k[1]
print(p)
Output:
Graham,S.E
Not with re :
full_name = input()
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
last_name= mod_name.pop(-1)
first_inital = mod_name[0][0]
if len(mod_name) >= 2:
middle_inital = mod_name[1][0]
print(f'{last_name}, {first_inital}.{middle_inital}')
else:
print(f'{last_name}, {first_inital}.')
You can use string indexing and f' string format.
Input:
Hello World Python
Output:
Python, H.W.
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