On 20/03/2021 06.17, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 4:01 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's about unnecessary capitalisation for a common use case >> in English. >> >> You can see it in action on my site: >> https://www.compileralchemy.com/#articles >> >> see 24. >> > > If you want something that's designed for English, get something > that's designed for English. The string method is deliberately > language-agnostic and simple.
There is an (unintended) 'psychological trap' here - that the documentation is in English, but that the feature's application is language-agnostic. Perhaps the bigger trap is "SODD"! (Stack Overflow-Driven Development - dn patent pending) Specifically, from where do we learn, the authoritative (or otherwise) nature of our source(s), and how effective that learning-process? Recently, my grumpy-old-man status rose a notch, when I received a 'Finxter' email-advertisement offering a course in "all" of the Python built-in functions. The advert claimed that this new offering was the first time such a course& had been offered. Quite aside from such teaching being contrary to theories of learning (other than rote), IMHO, this claim seemed specious. A casual web-search rapidly revealed the falsehood, by reminding me of a Udemy offering& and Techvidian's& - amongst others. NB such evidence making the advertisement illegal in this jurisdiction (albeit not many others)! Applying such concerns to our str.title() conversation, a quick-fire web-search quickly offers W3School's entry&, which is typical of the genre (that I have conflated under the title "SODD"). If you'd care to repeat the experiment (& refs below), you will find that this web-page (and its ilk) offer a quick way to remind oneself of the syntax and purpose of the function, as needed. However, its brief description is insufficient for learning - and totally-inappropriate when it comes to helping the OP! The 'psychological trap' inherent in these is the fallacy of apparent sufficiency - that the 'answer' might be complete, and therefore the impression that there is nothing left to learn. Whither their value? Compare that/them with the Python documentation& (per @Paul's post). Not only do we have the 'quick reminder' capability, but also the warning - and further a sample work-around. Here we have "authority" and "completeness" (and an open-source philosophy of enabling improvement). The 'docs' team work very hard on our behalf. Not only do they deserve our 'support' as readers, but such is also a more worthwhile investment in our own learning! BTW when programming, I will keep the Python Documentation web-page as an open tab in my web-browser, precisely to facilitate such rapid look-ups/reminders. Although, these days, editors/IDEs probably satisfy the majority of such needs. In addition, the DuckDuckGo search engine offers a "bang lookup" (short-cut) to the Python docs search page, ie "!py .title()" realises "https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=.title()" and thus gives pointers to str.title() plus the bytes and turtle methods of the same name - additionally to str.istitle() which is the inspection 'companion' to the 'do it' function we've been discussing! As many GPS-users have found to their cost, placing your reliance upon a tool whose objective is 'convenience', can lead you "down the garden path"&! & Web.Refs: https://academy.finxter.com/university/python-built-in-functions-every-python-coder-must-know/ (https://www.udemy.com/course/the-python-built-in-function-tutorial-series/) (https://techvidvan.com/tutorials/python-built-in-functions/) https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_title.asp https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/stdtypes.html#str.title https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lead+down+the+garden+path -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
