Accepting text input

[John Salerno]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:36:29 GMT
Collin <collinyeung at shaw.ca> wrote:

> So the .lower() string method is just to convert the string to lowercase 
> letters so that you don't have to type a bunch of if - then statements 
> in both cases, I'm assuming?

You can also type:

dir(str)

to get a list of all the methods you can call on a string object. If you see anything interesting, then type:

help(str.<method_name>) # e.g. help(str.split)

to find out how it works. :)