Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

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Date	2012-08-22 10:29 -0400
Subject	Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script
From	Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.3649.1345645757.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK! The bug one fixed. Thanks to Andreas Perstinger.
>
> Let's move to Bug #2:
>  2. How do I escape the words that are already in uppercase? For example:
>
> The input file has this:
> NASA
>
> The script changes this to:
> Nasa
>
> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word. If not
> do the processing? I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?
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Go into your python shell and type help(str) or lookup the
documentation on the python site about strings
http://docs.python.org/library/string.html

There are methods to tell if a word is all caps, or if the first
letter is capitalized

-- 
Joel Goldstick

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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 10:29 -0400

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