On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:01 AM Robert Latest via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > I don't mind .title() being in Python. I would very much mind to be the person > in charge of maintaining it and having to port it into new versions of Python, > always keeping an eye on the evolution of Unicode or other standards (see > above). > > It probably just comes down to me not being able to conjure up a single > sensible use case for .title() as well as the whole concept of "title casing" > in the context of a programming language. > > > The neat thing about Unicode is > > [many things] > > > The documentation sometimes shorthands things with terms like "upper > > case" and "lower case", but that's partly because being pedantically > > correct in a docstring doesn't actually help anything, and the code > > itself IS correct. > > ...but hard to maintain and useless. I just love to hate .title() ;-) >
Cool thing is, nobody in Python needs to maintain anything here. It's all built on top of the published Unicode data files. It's simply a matter of updating to the latest version of the Unicode standard! :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
