How to change upper case letters to lower case letters and spaces to underscores

Question

I would like to change the upper case string characters in a variable to lower case and replace the spaces with "_". I know I can use an 'if' statement for all instances but this would take too long. It is to save the input of a user to a filename i.e.

user_selection = 'Barracuda Limited'  # what I have
save_name == 'barracuda_limited'       # what I want

Note: I have read through the page on how to post and am trying my best, but I have just started to learn coding and am having trouble trying to frame my questions.

Answer 1

This is straightforward, using the str.lower() and str.replace() methods:

>>> user_selection = 'Barracuda Limited'
>>> save_name = user_selection.lower().replace(' ', '_')
>>> save_name
'barracuda_limited'