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Bernt Jensen
840 Pointsfully functional
why name.lower and not just name
2 Answers
Stuart Wright
41,120 Pointsname.lower() will convert the value of name to lowercase. In the example, this means that Kenneth could have passed 'kenneth', 'KENNETH', 'Kenneth' or even 'kENnEtH' to his function, and the expression would still evaluate to true. This is usually a good thing, as your users are unlikely to give you inputs in exactly the format you hope every time.
Bernt Jensen
840 PointsThank you! That really helped clear out my fuzzy brain