On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:31 PM Robert Latest via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:31 AM Robert Latest via Python-list > ><python-list@python.org> wrote: > >> > >> Mats Wichmann wrote: > >> > The problem is that there isn't a standard for title case, > >> > >> The problem is that we owe the very existence of the .title() method to too > >> much weed being smoked during Python development. It makes specific > >> assumptions about a specific use case of one specific language. It doesn't > >> get more idiotic, frankly. > >> > > > > The problem is that you haven't read the documentation :) It very carefully > > does NOT define itself by language, and its behaviour is identical > > regardless > > of the language used. > > The documentation says: "The algorithm uses a simple language-independent > definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters..." > > Yes, I get that. But the purpose it (improperly) serves only makes sense in > the > English language.
Why? Do titles not exist in other languages? Does no other language capitalize words in book or other titles? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
