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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Doctest failing
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:18:21 -0700
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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.
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