Question

routine 13 q.3, how do split the name so it can print with dashes or points between them?

Answer 1

You can iterate over a string like so:

word = 'elnatan'
for letter in word:

Each time through the loop, it will look at 1 character of the string. You can use concatenation (+) to construct a new string with dots or dashes added. You will want to start with initializing an empty string before the loop;

newString = ""

Comments

How do I get the dot or dash at the beginning and end of the word? I did the concatenation like you suggest here, but I'm forgetting how to do that part.

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There are a couple ways. You could use more concatenation, like this:

return newString+'!'

or an f string:

return f'{newString}!'

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outside the loop, if your variable was a then do a=a+'-'. does that make sense?

Answer 2

As strings are immutable, my approach is to call each index of the string and use concatenation. I start by creating a blank str variable =’ ‘ variable and then use for loop to put each index, + ‘.’ in the variable that I create.

Comments

FYI, the quote of the result automatically appears if the return function returns a string

Answer 3

You can try this method:
for num in range (0,len(word)):

        changed=changed+'-'+word[num]   
    changed=changed+'-'
    return(changed)