On 10 Sep, 13:43, Mel <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote:
> Tigerstyle wrote:
> > Hi guys.
>
> > I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
> > out here.
>
> > This is the code:
>
> > small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
>
> > def book_title(title):
> > """ Takes a string and returns a title-case string.
> > All words EXCEPT for small words are made title case
> > unless the string starts with a preposition, in which
> > case the word is correctly capitalized.
> > >>> book_title('DIVE Into python')
> > 'Dive into Python'
> > >>> book_title('the great gatsby')
> > 'The Great Gatsby'
> > >>> book_title('the WORKS OF AleXANDer dumas')
> > 'The Works of Alexander Dumas'
> > """
> > new_title = []
> > title_split = title.strip().lower().split()
> > for word in title_split:
> > if title_split[0] in small_words:
> > new_title.append(word.title())
> > elif word in small_words:
> > new_title.append(word.lower())
> > else:
> > new_title.append(word.title())
> > return(' '.join(new_title))
>
> > def _test():
> > import doctest, refactory
> > return doctest.testmod(refactory)
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> > _test()
>
> > All tests are failing even though I am getting the correct output on
> > the first two tests. And the last test still gives me "Of" instead of
> > "of"
>
> > Any help is appreciated.
>
> I don't know about doctest -- I suspect it wants a structured docstring to
> specify the tests -- but this
>
> if title_split[0] in small_words:
> new_title.append(word.title())
>
> can't be what you want.
>
> Mel.
Agreed. Not what I need.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
