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One-Line toUpperCase Function

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Problem

Evraz North America equipment may emit compact ASCII status messages that need normalization before further processing. Implement to_upper_ascii to convert every lowercase English letter in a mutable byte buffer to uppercase in place.

The conversion must affect only ASCII bytes from a through z. Preserve uppercase letters, digits, punctuation, spaces, and all other byte values unchanged. Do not call built-in string case-conversion functions. After implementing the function, explain the equivalent one-line C character expression using a conditional operator.

Formal Specification

  • Input: data, a non-empty list of integers, where each integer is an ASCII byte value from 0 through 127.
  • Output: Return the same list object after modifying its values in place.
  • A lowercase byte c becomes c - 32; every other byte remains unchanged.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(data) <= 10^5
  • Every value in data is an integer from 0 through 127
  • Only ASCII English letters require conversion
  • The input list must be modified in place

Function Signature

def to_upper_ascii(data):
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