Learn Python ยท lesson 6 of 24
Things text can do
Print the word in capital letters, then print how many letters it has.
Learn
Text has built-in tricks called methods, written after a dot. word.upper() makes capitals, word.lower() makes small letters, len(word) counts the characters, and word.replace("a", "o") swaps one piece of text for another. A method gives you a new value, so print it or save it.
Your task
Print the word in capital letters, then print how many letters it has.
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