On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Robert Latest via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > Benjamin Schollnick wrote: > > > >> I agree with everything you say. Especially the open source part. But > >> wouldn't you agree that .title() with all its arbitrary specificity to > >> appear in the very core of a general purpose language is quite an oddity? > > > > No, because it book ends the issue. > > > > Upper - Converts everything to uppercase Lower - Converts everything to > > lowercase > > > > Title - Covers the cases in-between upper/lower. > > My only issue is that I completely fail to see how this function would be > useful enough to warrant the inclusion into the *core* of a general-purpose > language, including its misleading name. The fact that the function's behavior > is correctly documented doesn't make its very existence less bewildering to > me. > Consider this function: > > def add_seventeen(n): '''Return n with 16.8 added''' return n + 16.8 > > It's like .title(): It does almost the thing its name suggests, it is > correctly > documented, it is useful to anybody who happens to want 16.8 added to numbers, > and it might erroneously be used by someone who wants exactly 17 added and > didn't bother to read the docs.
If you still, after all these posts, have not yet understood that title-casing *a single character* is a significant thing, then please do not continue to complain about language design. Without this method, how do you correctly title-case one character? What do you use? upper()? lower()? casefold()? > BTW I have no beef with the person who invented .title() nor with anybody who > uses it. I know that everybody can join the Python development community and > propose the removal of .title() and the inclusion of add_seventeen(). That > said, I doubt that .title() would make it into Python today if it weren't > there > already. I'm having fun with this. > I'm glad you're having fun, because being wrong can be a lot of unfun sometimes. I'm done arguing with you. You're a brick wall and you refuse to comprehend Unicode. The method was not invented for ASCII. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
