On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:18 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2021-03-21, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > IMO, the doc is wrong. > > >> 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 guess it depends on what you mean by "character". In my mind, the > first character of string s is s[1], and I would then expect that > > s.title()[1] == s[1].upper() >
I presume you mean [0], but no, that's not the case. A single character can titlecase to two characters, or to a single character that isn't the same as if you uppercase or lowercase it. See examples in previous post. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list