Re: Flubbed it in the second interation through the string: range error... HOW?

Your code is unreadable. The lines have all run together.  And after that, kindly explain what you want your code sample to do.  "Process" doesn't say much.
 From what I can make out about what you are trying to do, you would do better to index through your string with
for i, chr in enumerate(name):
     # do something with the character
Also, it's 2024 ... time to start using f-strings (because they are more readable than str.format())
On 5/29/2024 12:33 AM, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote:

The following is my effort to understand how to process a string, letter, by letter:
def myfunc(name):        index = 0    howmax = len(name)    # while (index <= howmax):    while (index < howmax):        if (index % 2 == 0):            print('letter to upper = {}, index {}!'.format(name[index], index))            name = name[index].upper()            print('if block {} and index {}'.format(name[index], index))        elif (index % 2 > 0):            print(index)            print('Start: elseif block, index is {}, letter is {}'.format(index, name))            # print('letter to lower = {}'.format(name[index]))            # print('Already lowercase do noting: name = {}'.format(name[index]))        index += 1        # index = name.upper()
     return name
myfunc('capitalism')
Error message:                        Not making sense, index is 1, letter s/b 'a'letter to upper = c, index 0!
if block C and index 0
1
Start: elseif block, index is 1, letter is C
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IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[27], line 21
      17         # index = name.upper()
      19     return name
---> 21 myfunc('capitalism')
 Cell In[27], line 8, in myfunc(name)
       6 while (index < howmax):
       7     if (index % 2 == 0):
----> 8         print('letter to upper = {}, index {}!'.format(name[index], index))
       9         name = name[index].upper()
      10         print('if block {} and index {}'.format(name[index], index))
 IndexError: string index out of range***************************************************
So, I'm doing something... Stupid!!
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