The topic of titles is complex, and would be significant undertaking to automate. It's not only highly language-dependent, it's also based on the subject work itself, and subject to guidelines of those charged with indexing such works.
MusicBrainz guidelines: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Titles https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style#Language_specific_guidelines Wikipedia guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles#Capital_letters Addressing such complexities isn't going to be baked into the simplistic `str.title` method. As demonstrated by the OP, it will almost certainly come up short, even in the simplest use case. I suggest the best approach then is to find (or write) a module that addresses the specific use case, not try to address such shortcomings in `str`. Paul On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 23:01 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:31 PM Robert Latest via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Why? Do titles not exist in other languages? Does no other language > capitalize words in book or other titles? > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
