Your code is unreadable. The lines have all run together. And after that, kindly explain what you want your code sample to do. "Process" doesn't say much.

From what I can make out about what you are trying to do, you would do better to index through your string with

for i, chr in enumerate(name):
    # do something with the character

Also, it's 2024 ... time to start using f-strings (because they are more readable than str.format())

On 5/29/2024 12:33 AM, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote:
The following is my effort to understand how to process a string, letter, by 
letter:
def myfunc(name):        index = 0    howmax = len(name)    # while (index <= 
howmax):    while (index < howmax):        if (index % 2 == 0):            
print('letter to upper = {}, index {}!'.format(name[index], index))            name = 
name[index].upper()            print('if block {} and index {}'.format(name[index], 
index))        elif (index % 2 > 0):            print(index)            print('Start: 
elseif block, index is {}, letter is {}'.format(index, name))            # print('letter 
to lower = {}'.format(name[index]))            # print('Already lowercase do noting: 
name = {}'.format(name[index]))        index += 1        # index = name.upper()
     return name
myfunc('capitalism')
Error message:                        Not making sense, index is 1, letter s/b 
'a'letter to upper = c, index 0!
if block C and index 0
1
Start: elseif block, index is 1, letter is C
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[27], line 21
      17         # index = name.upper()
      19     return name
---> 21 myfunc('capitalism')

Cell In[27], line 8, in myfunc(name)
       6 while (index < howmax):
       7     if (index % 2 == 0):
----> 8         print('letter to upper = {}, index {}!'.format(name[index], 
index))
       9         name = name[index].upper()
      10         print('if block {} and index {}'.format(name[index], index))

IndexError: string index out of 
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So, I'm doing something... Stupid!!
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"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you: and when you pass through the 
rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be 
burned: the flames will not set you ablaze."
Isaiah 43:2

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