Re: Doctest failing

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Subject	Re: Doctest failing
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alister Ware
<alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Ignoring the docttests my process would be to process each word & then
> manually capitalize he 1st word, .I would als0 use a comprehension as
> makes for cleaner code:-
>
> def capitalize(word):
>    if word in small_words:
>        return word
>    else:
>        return word.title()

And I'd do this with a lambda, but that's just me. Of course, if your
logic is more complicated, it makes more sense to keep it in a named
function, but a single conditional call can fit nicely into a lambda.

ChrisA

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Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 04:20 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-09-10 07:43 -0400
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:36 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-09-10 13:47 +0200
    Re: Doctest failing ting@thsu.org - 2011-09-10 19:12 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:42 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-10 13:50 +0200
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:39 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Alister Ware <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2011-09-10 12:24 +0000
    Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 01:56 +1000
      Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:40 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-09-11 11:43 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 11:03 +1000
      Re: Doctest failing Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-09-12 11:37 +1000
        Re: Doctest failing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 13:06 +1000
          Re: Doctest failing Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-12 14:29 +1000
  Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-10 13:59 -0400
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 04:46 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-11 13:03 -0400
  Re: Doctest failing Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-10 15:36 -0400
  Re: Doctest failing Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-09-10 22:49 +0200
  Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-10 16:25 -0700
  Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-10 23:18 -0700
    Re: Doctest failing Tigerstyle <laddosingh@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 09:43 -0700
      Re: Doctest failing Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-11 12:37 -0700

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