Input quote, output in caps, lower case and reverse

Question

I'm trying to make a program in Python 3 (IDLE) which lets the user input a quote and outputs it in upper case, lower case and in reverse. I've tried this:

quote = input("Enter your quote here: ")
print(quote.upper())
print(quote.lower())
print(quote.reverse())

...but all I get back when I test it is this error text:

Enter your quote here: You are always unique.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\shobha m nair\Documents\Quote Conversion.py", line 2, in <module>
    quote = input("Enter your quote here: ")
  File "<string>", line 1
    You are always unique.
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

You're using Python 2 where `input` runs `eval` on the result. — Morgan Thrapp, Dec 10 '15 at 21:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 21:32

You are probably using Python 2.x that's why you got the unexpected behaviour. The following code ran fine with Python 3.5:

quote = input("Enter your quote here: ")
print(quote.upper())
print(quote.lower())
print(quote[::-1])

There is no "reverse" method for strings.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '15 at 21:34

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This works for me:

quote = input("Enter your quote here: ") print(quote.upper()) print(quote.lower()) print(quote[::-1])

The last one is the extended splice operator. AFAIK there's no reverse method in Python 3.

answered Dec 10 '15 at 21:34

Warrshrike

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Note that this will not work in Python 2, and cause exactly the issue described in the question. – hlt Dec 10 '15 at 21:34
Yes, but didn't he specifically say he's using Python 3? – Warrshrike Dec 10 '15 at 21:35

Input quote, output in caps, lower case and reverse

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