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From: Kamil Kuduk <kamil.kuduk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:06:06 +0200
Subject: Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why less? Why not just redirect input?
Yeah, my bad, I somehow used to do it, for grep too, and I know that
this is slower

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

I would still go with regexp, something like:

with open('myfile.txt', 'rw) as file:
	 print "".join(re.sub(r'\w{3,}', lambda(match):
match.group(0).title(), line) for line in file)