On 2021-03-20, Alan Bawden <a...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epist...@web.de> writes: > > Am 20.03.2021 um 09:34 schrieb Alan Bawden: > > > > When you write that code to capitalize your book titles, you should be > > calling .title() rather than .upper() if you are doing it right. > > > But that's exactly what he's doing, with a result which is documented, but > not really satisfactory. > > Sorry, what I wrote was ambiguous. What I _meant_ was that when you > replace x.title() with my_title(x) , then in the definition of my_title > you will be calling both .lower() and .title() on individual characters, > but you will probably _never_ be calling .upper().
Does Python have any way to convert a character to titlecase? The documentation for .title() explicitly states that it will convert a character to upper case, not to title case. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
