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Sort a string

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(upbeat music) - Manipulating strings and sorting things are common tasks in everyday programming. So this challenge will give you practice doing just that. Your goal is to write a Python function to sort the words in a string. It should accept a string containing one or more words separated by spaces as the input argument, and then return a string containing those words sorted alphabetically. A call to the function might look like this, taking in a string of words and then returning the string of string words. You should ignore the case of the words when sorting them. However, the output should have the same upper and lowercase letters as the corresponding input words. For example, the input string 'banana ORANGE apple' should produce the output shown here with 'apple banana ORANGE.' Notice that even though the word orange was capitalized it was still sorted to the end of the output string because that's where it belongs…

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