Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
I agree with the OP that str.title should be made smarter. As it stands, it is a likely bug factory that would pass unittests, then generate unpleasant results with real user inputs. Extending on Thomas's comment, I think string.capwords() needs to be deprecated and eliminated. It is an egregious hack that has unfortunate effects such as dropping runs for repeated spaces and incorrectly handling strings in quotes. As it stands, we have two methods that both don't quite do what we would really want in a title casing method (correct handling of apostrophe's and quotation marks, keeping the string length unchanged, and only changing desired letters from lower to uppercase with no other side-effects). ---------- nosy: +rhettinger versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 -Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7008> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
