On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:04 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2021-03-21, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 2:16 AM Robert Latest via Python-list > > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > >> 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. > > Not according to the docs. The doc states that .title() converts the > first character characger in each "word" to _upper_ case. Is the doc > wrong? > > If you want titlecase, then you should call str.capitalize() which > (again according to the doc) converts the first character to _title_ > case (starting in v3.8). >
Hmm, maybe it's different in 3.10, but the docs I'm seeing look fine. But maybe there's a better way to word it for both of them. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
