Steve Howell skrev: > --- Nis Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Steve Howell skrev: >> >>> def firstIsCapitalized(word): >>> return 'A' <= word[0] <= 'Z' >> For someone who is worried about the impact of >> non-ascii identifiers, >> you are making surprising assumptions about the >> contents of data. >> > > The function there, which I don't even remotely > defend, had nothing to with the main point of the > thread. Others pointed out that correct idiom here is > word.istitle(), but the main point of the thread was > how to prevent the newbie from essentially reinventing > itertools.groupby.
The subject line says "Newbie question - better way to do this". I was hinting at a better way to do what you did, which was supposedly a better way of doing what the newbie wanted. I disagree that word.istitle is the correct idiom - from the naming of the function in the original example, I would guess "word[0].isupper" would do the trick. > If you want to point out holes in my logic about the > impact of non-ascii identifiers (the above code, > though bad, does not suggest a hole in my logic; it > perhaps even adds to my case), can you kindly do it in > a thread where that's the main point of the > discussion? Will do. Nis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
