On 3/21/21 7:31 PM, MRAB wrote: > 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 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> 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.
I think the clarification calling them upper cased characters is close enough considering that there are only 31 title cased characters, all digraphs. -- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list