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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script
Date 2012-08-22 13:40 -0400
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On 8/22/2012 10:46 AM, Rebelo wrote:

>> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
>> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word.

Unicode has two 'capital' concepts: 'uppercase' and 'titlecase'. They 
are the same for latin chars but not for all alphabets.

>> I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

No. It may or may not be easier.

> change:
>   words[i] = word.capitalize()
>
> into:
> if word != word.upper() :
>       words[i] = word.capitalize()

Still buggy
 >>> s = 'CamelCase'
 >>> if s != s.upper(): s = s.capitalize()

 >>> s
'Camelcase'

use "if not word[0].isupper:..."
or "if word[0].islower

This will still .capitalize() 'weirdWord' to 'Weirdword'.
If you do not want that, only change the first letter.

 >>> s = 'weirdWord'
 >>> if s[0].islower(): s = s[0].upper()+s[1:]

 >>> s
'WeirdWord'

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 18:30 +0530
  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700
    Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-22 13:40 -0400
  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700

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