Python 中的lower()、upper()函数和str\chr

今天遇到一点小问题，需要编写一个程序将List 中的无规则英文名按【首字母大写其余部分小写】的方式转换

一开始的思路是编写一个函数将每个名字字符串【str】进行处理，如何用map进行批处理

不得不说，大方向的思路是正确的，但在细节的处理上出了些问题

最开始我是这样写名字处理函数的：

def change (name)
    result = name[0].upper()
    for a in name[1:len(name)]:
        result = result + a.lower()

然后运行会报错

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
  File "practice.py", line 6
    for a in name(1:len(name)-1) :
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "practice.py", line 11, in <module>
    name_li = map (change, name_list)
  File "practice.py", line 6, in change
    for a in name(1,len(name)-1) :
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "practice.py", line 9, in <module>
    name_li = map (change, name_list)
  File "practice.py", line 5, in change
    name[0] = name[0].upper()
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "practice.py", line 10, in <module>
    name_li = map (change, name_list)
  File "practice.py", line 6, in change
    name[0] = tmp
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

E:\PythonFile>python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 10 2014, 12:24:55) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> l = 'zxcv'
>>> print l[0]
z
>>> print l[0].upper
<built-in method upper of str object at 0x02148740>
>>> print l[0].upper()
Z
>>> z
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'z' is not defined
>>> ^Z


E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "practice.py", line 9, in <module>
    name_li = map (change, name_list)
  File "practice.py", line 6, in change
    name[0] = tmp
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "practice.py", line 13, in <module>
    name_li = map (change, name_list)
  File "practice.py", line 5, in change
    tmp = chr(name[0])
TypeError: an integer is required

试过几次后发现大致意思是对字符串的处理不能这么做，于是查了upper（）和lower()的用法，发现这两个函数就是直接作用于str的，所以根本不需要这么麻烦。

修改后：

# practice.py
# Change the first char in every name from lower type to upper type

def change (name):
	result =  name[0:1].upper()+name[1:len(name)].lower()
	return result

name_list = ['kzd','ysy','kcw','scr','ky']
name_li = map (change, name_list)
print name_l

运行结果：

E:\PythonFile>python practice.py
['Kzd', 'Ysy', 'Kcw', 'Scr', 'Ky']

错误在于我企图对字符串中的元素进行赋值替换，这是不允许的。