Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> gvm...@gmail.com writes:
>
>> On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 11:25:04 PM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>>> I'm trying to convert strings to Title Case, but getting ugly results
>>> if the words contain an apostrophe:
>>>
>>>
>>> py> 'hello world'.title() # okay
>>> 'Hello World'
>>> py> "i can't be having with this".title() # not okay
>>> "I Can'T Be Having With This"
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions for working around this?
>
> [snip sig]
>
>> import string
>>
>> txt = "i can't be having with this"
>> string.capwords(txt)
>>
>> That gives you "I Can't Be Having With This"
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>
> Won't Steve D'aprano And D'arcy Cain Be Happy Now :)
Perhaps one could limit the conversion to go from lower to upper only, as
names tend be in the desired case in the original text.
>>> def first_up(s):
... return s[:1].upper() + s[1:]
...
>>> def title(s):
... return re.compile(r"(?:\b'?)\w+").sub(lambda m: first_up(m.group()),
s)
...
>>> title("won't steve D'Aprano and d'arcy cain be 'happy' now?")
"Won't Steve D'Aprano And D'arcy Cain Be 'Happy' Now?"
Unfortunately this won't help with
>>> title("admiral von schneider")
'Admiral Von Schneider' # von should be lower case
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