Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:31 AM Robert Latest via Python-list ><python-list@python.org> wrote: >> >> Mats Wichmann wrote: >> > The problem is that there isn't a standard for title case, >> >> The problem is that we owe the very existence of the .title() method to too >> much weed being smoked during Python development. It makes specific >> assumptions about a specific use case of one specific language. It doesn't >> get more idiotic, frankly. >> > > The problem is that you haven't read the documentation :) It very carefully > does NOT define itself by language, and its behaviour is identical regardless > of the language used.
The documentation says: "The algorithm uses a simple language-independent definition of a word as groups of consecutive letters..." Yes, I get that. But the purpose it (improperly) serves only makes sense in the English language. Which is also the reason they called it title() and not capitalize_words(). Frankly, I can't think of any situation where this method would have any use -- in any language, including English. It is just a completely arbitrary feature, as would be a function that capitalizes only the last letter of each word. robert -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
