On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 2:16 AM Robert Latest via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:31 PM Robert Latest via Python-list > ><python-list@python.org> wrote: > >> Yes, I get that. But the purpose it (improperly) serves only makes sense in > >> the English language. > > > > Why? Do titles not exist in other languages? Does no other language > > capitalize words in book or other titles? > > I wonder if .title() properly capitalizes titles in any language. It doesn't > in > English (nor does it purport to), so it begs the question why it is there in > the first place. German and Spanish don't have any special capitalization > rules > for titles; I don't know about any other languages. >
It correctly title-cases a single character, as has been pointed out already. Attempting to do this with upper() or lower() will give incorrect results. So if you want to define language-specific rules (maybe with a regex) for splitting into words and subwords, you can then use title() and lower() to perform the actual changes. Treat it as a building-block rather than as a magical "do what I want" function, and it is incredibly useful, and in fact, is the only way to be correct. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
