Hey everyone, today we are going to create a simple Acronym Generator using Python.
How Acronym Generators work?
So basically an Acronym Generator will take a String as an input and it will return the initials of all the words in the String.
Let's Code
To get started, we need a phrase from the user. We can do that using input()
method.
user_input = input("Enter a phrase: ")
We have stored the user input in a user_input
variable.
Now we must ignore words like 'of' from the user input as most of the time, 'of' is not considered for acronyms.
Also, we need to separate each word and store it individually in a form of a list so that we can easily iterate through it.
phrase = (user_input.replace('of', '')).split()
Here in user_input.replace('of', '')
we are using .replace()
function to ignore 'of' from the input, if any.
And then we are using .split()
function to break down the string into individual words and store them as a list in phrase
variable.
We are almost done!
We need an empty string variable to store our acronym. Let's quickly create one...
acronym = ""
Now let's create a for loop which will iterate through phrase
variable.
for word in phrase:
acronym = acronym + word[0].upper()
Here in acronym = acronym + word[0]
, we are slicing off the first letter of words stored in phrase
using slicing operator and adding it to our acronym
variable.
We are also using .upper()
function to capitalize the acronyms.
Finally, just add a print
statement which will print out the acronym on the console.
print(f'Acronym of {user_input} is {a}')
Awesome now let's try running our code with different inputs.
Enter a phrase: machine learning
Acronym of machine learning is ML
Enter a phrase: artificial intelligence
Acronym of artificial intelligence is AI
Enter a phrase: federal bureau of investigation
Acronym of federal bureau of investigation is FBI
Source Code
You can find the complete source code of this project here - mindninjaX/Python-Projects-for-Beginners
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Top comments (6)
Great tutorial with getting started to operate on a string which is very important for beginners. Things to learn from this tutorial is
Great Work
I am glad you liked it Suraj!
Thanks for the takeaway summary 😇
Can I suggest
word
as variable name in place ofi
?Thank you so much, Mike, for the suggestion... I have fixed the mistake...
Again thank you so much and have a great day 😃😄😊
Thanks for the question. I encountered this acronym many times, but have never thought about it.
It stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart”.
It looks like have already been absorbed into dictionary, so it can be used as a natural English word without capital.
Nowadays, “captcha” is used to distinguish human and computer by many websites to prevent automated cyber attack. wordmaker.info/how-many/acronym.html
you made a superb thing in very short code.Nice!