🔒 Capitalization program not working

[drifting ridge]

Anyone know what the problem may be? It says strings don't support object assignment, how else can i capitalize the letter I'm on? Also, if I can cut any corners on this code do let me know. I'm very new to python so please be kind

name = "the big brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
for i in range(len(name)):
    if name[i:i+1] == name[i:i+1].lower() and name[i-1:i] == " ":
        name[i:i+1] = name[i:i+1].upper
    elif name[i:i+1] == name[i:i+1].lower() and i == 0:
        name[i:i+1] = name[i:i+1].upper```

[bright drift]

@drifting ridge

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Can you paste the entire error?

nevermind

you call a function using ()

[drifting otter]

You can't assign to a string's index

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and that

[drifting otter]

!e

text = 'abcde'

text[3] = 'x'

[bright drift]

:x: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "/home/main.py", line 3, in <module>
003 |     text[3] = 'x'
004 |     ~~~~^^^
005 | TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

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strings are immutable

[drifting otter]

Even though it is indexable like a list, you can't assign to those indices

[drifting ridge]

What would I be able to do instead to achieve this goal then 😮‍💨

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What are you trying to do?

[drifting ridge]

I'm trying to capitalize every start of a new word

Including the start of a string

[drifting otter]

You can convert the string to a list so that you can do object assignment, then convert the list back to a str after

There's also a built-in method that does exactly that

but I assume this is to practice as an exercise

[drifting ridge]

This is something I came up with myself because I can't find any challenges or stuff online

[drifting ridge]

How can I convert a string to a list?

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!e print(list("String"))

[drifting ridge]

And how would I convert it back

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:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

['S', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g']

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!d str.join

[bright drift]

str.join

str.join(iterable)```
Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in *iterable*. A [`TypeError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError) will be raised if there are any non-string values in *iterable*, including [`bytes`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes) objects. The separator between elements is the string providing this method.

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