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Re: Doctest failing

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:25:42 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> in the language documentation... It will give you a simple way to know
> if you are looking at the first word. Basically, you want to title-case
> the word IF it is the first word OR the word is NOT in the list of
> lowercase words; anything else goes through as lower case...

	Of course, most of this can be done in a single line (including
taking into account that some words may have a punctuation mark which
would confuse the original).

>>> smalls = ['into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on' ]
>>> punct = ".,;:?!;'\"(){}[]"
>>> def recase(str = "physicist odd-affection, or how i was taught to stop fretting and adore the weapon of mass destruction"):
... 	return " ".join( w.title() if i == 0 or w.strip(punct) not in
smalls else w
... 			for i,w in enumerate(str.lower().strip().split()) )
... 
>>> recase()
'Physicist Odd-Affection, Or How I Was Taught To Stop Fretting And Adore
the Weapon of Mass Destruction'
>>> recase("what? me worry?")
'What? Me Worry?'
>>> recase("the end of the matter is, to be blunt, a confusion")
'The End of the Matter Is, To Be Blunt, a Confusion'
>>> recase("the end of the matter is in, to be blunt, a confusion")
'The End of the Matter Is in, To Be Blunt, a Confusion'
>>> smalls = ['into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on', "and", "is", "to" ]
>>> recase()
'Physicist Odd-Affection, Or How I Was Taught To Stop Fretting and Adore
the Weapon of Mass Destruction'
>>> recase("the end of the matter is in, to be blunt, a confusion")
'The End of the Matter is in, to Be Blunt, a Confusion'
>>> 

	Of course, explaining what this construct is doing is the trick to
justifying it for a homework assignment.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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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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