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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:56:32 +1000
Subject: Re: Doctest failing
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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):
> =A0 =A0if word in small_words:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0return word
> =A0 =A0else:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0return 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