Comment by f1shy

Comment by f1shy 10 months ago

5 replies

There are other ways around without making the standard impossible to get right. Great, we have a standard that can cope with any alphabet... oh pitty that is impossible to write programs that use it correctly.

ks2048 10 months ago

It's tricky, but that's why nearly all of the time, you should use standard libraries. E.g., in Python, ".upper()" and ".capitalize()" does the work for you.

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  • f1shy 10 months ago

    Does it have titleize() ?

    • ks2048 10 months ago

      That is capitalize()

      There's a note in the docs [0],

          Changed in version 3.8: The first character is now put into titlecase rather than uppercase. This means that characters like digraphs will only have their first letter capitalized, instead of the full character.
      
      [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.capitali...

      EDIT: As the other reply says, ".title()" is probably a better answer to your question. Warning as the docs show [1], this splits things on sequence of letters, not whitespace!

          >>> "they're bill's friends from the UK".title()
      
          "They'Re Bill'S Friends From The Uk"
      
      
      [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.title
    • o11c 10 months ago

      It's `.title()`, but note that it doesn't follow language-specific semantic rules like not capitalizing "the" and "of".