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Re: Doctest failing

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Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 9/10/2011 7:47 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> You can work around that with a
>> flag along these lines
>>
>> first = True
>> for word in title_split:
>>      if first:
>>          # special treatment for the first word
>>          first = False
>>      else:
>>          # put checks for all words but the first here
>>      new_title.append(fixed_word) # assuming you have stored the
>>      titlecased
>>                                   # or lowercased word in the fixed_word
>>                                   # variable
> 
> An alternative to a flag and testing every item is to remove and process
> the first item *before* the loop. See my response on this thread or my
> new thread
> Idioms combining 'next(items)' and 'for item in items:'

I reckoned the approach with the flag the most beginner-friendly because you 
don't have to think too hard about the corner-cases, namely

>>> book_title("")
''

When I use the "process first item before the loop" approach I usually end 
up with a helper generator

def _words(words, small_words={w.title(): w for w in small_words}):
    yield next(words)
    for word in words:
        yield small_words[word] if word in small_words else word

def book_title(s):
    return " ".join(_words(iter(s.title().split())))

and the nagging thought that I'm making it more complex than need be.

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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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