String Manipulation

Does this code look familiar from the insult generator project?

name = input("What's your name? ")

if name == "David" or name == "david":

print("Hello Baldy!")

else:

print("What a beautiful head of hair!")

Right now, if the user writes "DAVID" or "david", the if statement works correctly. However, "DaVID" does not give the correct output.

To the computer, " david", "dAviD", and "david" are completely different.

To simplify what the user typed in, we can add these functions to the end of the name of the variable:

.lower() = all letters are lower case
.upper() = all letters are upper case
.title() = capital letter for the first letter of every word
.capitalize() = capital letter for the first letter of only the first word

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