On 2021-03-21 22:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:04 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2021-03-21, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 2:16 AM Robert Latest via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if .title() properly capitalizes titles in any language. It doesn't
in
>> English (nor does it purport to), so it begs the question why it is there in
>> the first place. German and Spanish don't have any special capitalization
rules
>> for titles; I don't know about any other languages.
>>
>
> It correctly title-cases a single character, as has been pointed out
> already.
Not according to the docs. The doc states that .title() converts the
first character characger in each "word" to _upper_ case. Is the doc
wrong?
If you want titlecase, then you should call str.capitalize() which
(again according to the doc) converts the first character to _title_
case (starting in v3.8).
Hmm, maybe it's different in 3.10, but the docs I'm seeing look fine.
But maybe there's a better way to word it for both of them.
Python 3.9.2 (tags/v3.9.2:1a79785, Feb 19 2021, 13:44:55) [MSC v.1928 64
bit (AMD64)] on win32
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help(str.title)
Help on method_descriptor:
title(self, /)
Return a version of the string where each word is titlecased.
More specifically, words start with uppercased characters and all
remaining
cased characters have lower case.
'\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ}', '\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ}' and '\N{LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER Z}' are all digraphs, so is it
correct to say that .title() uppercases the first character? Kind of.
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