Name formatting in python with string splits

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I have gotten mostly through this assignment but I am stuck as to obtain the proper outputs.

This assignment wishes that if the inputs are a full name, that the outputs are "last name, first initial. last initial. If the input was Stacy Estel Graham, the expected output should be Graham, S.E.

"Many documents use a specific format for a person's name. Write a program whose input is:

firstName middleName lastName

and whose output is:

lastName, firstInitial.middleInitial."

full_name = input()
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
last_name= mod_name.pop(-1)
mod_name.join('.')
print(last_name)
print(mod_name)

I am completely lost on how to proceed.

python-3.x
4 Answers

You need to use '.'.join() to get the initials added.

To extract only the first char from the name, you can do mod_name[i][:1] where i is the index from 0 until last name - 1.

You can do something like this:

full_name = input('Enter your full name :')
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
temp = '.'.join([mod_name[i][0] for i in range (0, len(mod_name) - 1)])
if temp == '':
    print (mod_name[-1])
else:
    print (mod_name[-1] + ', ' + temp + '.')

Here are some of the sample runs:

Enter your full name :Stacy Estel Sugar Graham
Graham, S.E.S.

Enter your full name :Stacy Estel Graham
Graham, S.E.

Enter your full name :Stacy Graham
Graham, S.

Enter your full name :Graham
Graham
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Use:

def format_name(name):
    names = name.split()
    return f"{names[-1]}, {''.join([f'{i[0]}.' for i in names[:-1]])}"

Examples:

format_name('Stacy Estel Graham')
# > 'Graham, S.E.'

format_name('Randall McGrath')
# > 'McGrath, R.'
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this code help you,but middle name is must for every person for creating your desire output

import re
s="Stacy Estel Graham"
words=s.split()
k=re.findall("[A-Z]",s)
p=words[-1]+","+k[0]+"."+k[1]
print(p)

Output:

Graham,S.E
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Not with re :

full_name = input()
mod_name = full_name.split(' ')
last_name= mod_name.pop(-1)
first_inital = mod_name[0][0]
if len(mod_name) >= 2:
    middle_inital = mod_name[1][0]
    print(f'{last_name}, {first_inital}.{middle_inital}')
else:
    print(f'{last_name}, {first_inital}.')

You can use string indexing and f' string format.

Input:

Hello World Python

Output:

Python, H.W.
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