[Tutor] Another string-manipulation question

[Alan Gilfoy]

Given a string, how would I?:

1. Make sure only the first letter string_name[0], is capitalized.
This would involve using string_name.lower() to lowercase everything  
else, but how do I use .upper(), or some other method, to capitalize  
only the first character?

2. Make sure that there are no symbols (non-letter, non-number) in the  
string, and, if one is found, remove it.

Pseudocode time, as to a potential approach-

for each character in the string:
     if character not in  
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ":
         remove it
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