# Help converting python to julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-converting-python-to-julia/31998
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** strings, regex
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-converting-python-to-julia/31998 "2019-12-08T04:10:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@PseudoCodeNerd](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PseudoCodeNerd)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-converting-python-to-julia/31998/1 "2019-12-08T04:10:16Z")
Hello There,
after my previous post I tried learning ReGeX to do the acronym thing I was trying to do.
I was able to write a python code for the same which works right !
Julia documentation was not clear to me…
Can you please help me ?
```julia
import re
def abbreviate(words):
regex = "[A-Z]+['a-z]*|['a-z]+"
return ''.join(word[0].upper() for word in re.findall(regex, words))
```
P.S: I’m a 15 year old and this the first time I’m doing Julia and RegEx
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### Author:  [@thautwarm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thautwarm)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-converting-python-to-julia/31998/2 "2019-12-08T04:43:59Z")
1. for `re.findall`, search `julia regex findall`, check the first link is [Find the index of all regex matches in Julia? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41724107/find-the-index-of-all-regex-matches-in-julia) . Take care that all matched stuffs are in type `RegexMatch`, you should use `matched.match` to get the exact matched string.
2. for `str.upper`, you can type `upper` in Julia shell, and press TAB, to check if any available similar stuffs. Absolutely you’ll get
3. `word[0]` shall be `word.match[1]`, you know Julia uses usually 1-based index?
4. `''.join`, search `julia join strings`, and the 3rd result listed several titled links from Stack Overflow, I found this:
So,
```julia
function abbreviate(words)
regex = "[A-Z]+['a-z]*|['a-z]+"
return join([uppercase(word.match[1]) for word in eachmatch(Regex(regex), words)], "")
end
```
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### Author:  [@thautwarm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thautwarm)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-converting-python-to-julia/31998/3 "2019-12-08T04:46:00Z")
As you’re a very young person who just started learning about Julia, I’d give you such suggestions and methods to work with programming issues, instead of giving you the direct result.