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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:41:42 +1000
Subject: Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Kamil Kuduk <kamil.kuduk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Purpose of the script:
>> To capitalize the first letter of any word in a given file, leaving
>> words which have 3 or less letters.
>
> First or all? If first and this is the only purpose of the script you
> can easily use sed:
> less file.txt | sed -e "s/\b\([a-z]\{4,\}\)/\u\1/g"

Why less? Why not just redirect input?

Though, this isn't really on topic for Python.

ChrisA