[Solved] About choosing names and caps/case sensitive

[Adabelitoo]

Let's imagine that the player wants to name his character Markus, so I'll do this

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$ mc = renpy.input(What will be your name (Default name will be MC))
$ mc = mc.strip()

Now, let's imagine that the player writes markus or mARKUS instead of Markus. Is it possible to force the name to be Markus?

Also, as another example, let's say that there is a character named Clementine and the player has to manually write (not define, only write) her name, so I'll do this

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if name == Clementine
    #Right answer
else
    #Wrong answer

Now let's imagine again that the player writes clementine or CLEMENTINE or cleMENTine or CLEMENtine (I'm making it absurd to make it clear). Is it possible to make the game recognize that the word introduced is still Clementine? I found about flags like and !cl would do what I need but I don't want to write [mc!cl] every time, I want to force the name to be stored in the rigth way. Thanks for reading.

[Ocelot]

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$ mc = mc.capitalize()

[jeffster]

Use Python string methods:

capitalize() for "This"

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$ mc = renpy.input("What will be your name (Default name will be MC)", default="MC").strip()
$ mcc = mc.capitalize()
if mc != mcc:
    menu:
        "Do you mean [mcc]?"
        "Yes":
            $ mc = mcc
        "No, I mean [mc]!"
            pass

https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/std ... capitalize

And casefold() (RenPy 8+) or lower() (RenPy 7) for conversion to lowercase:

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if name.lower() == "Clementine".lower():
    #Right answer
else:
    #Wrong answer

https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/std ... r.casefold

[downover]

> Now let's imagine again that the player writes clementine or CLEMENTINE or cleMENTine or CLEMENtine (I'm making it absurd to make it clear). Is it possible to make the game recognize that the word introduced is still Clementine? I found about flags like and !cl would do what I need but I don't want to write [mc!cl] every time, I want to force the name to be stored in the rigth way.

If you're trying to make the game behave differently when the user's name is set to some form of Clemintine, I would instead save that as a separate bool when the name is created. Something like...

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$ mc_name = renpy.input("What will your name be?").strip()
$ clementine_mode = mc_name.lower() == "clementine"

Then you just need to check for the bool clementine_mode.

[Adabelitoo]

Thank you everyone for your answers. Everything works as planned now.

Marked as solved.

[jeffster]

...Just note that "MC".capitalize() becomes "Mc", not "MC".
That's why an automatic transformation, without user's confirmation, might not be the best for every case (e.g. "MacGuyver" etc.)...