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  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 18:30 +0530
    Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700
      Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-22 13:40 -0400
    Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700

#27631 — Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

OK! The bug one fixed. Thanks to Andreas Perstinger.

Let's move to Bug #2:
 2. How do I escape the words that are already in uppercase? For example:

The input file has this:
NASA

The script changes this to:
Nasa

Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word. If not
do the processing? I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

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#27640

> Let's move to Bug #2:
> 
>  2. How do I escape the words that are already in uppercase? For example:
> 
> 
> 
> The input file has this:
> 
> NASA
> 
> 
> 
> The script changes this to:
> 
> Nasa
> 
> 
> 
> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
> 
> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word. If not
> 
> do the processing? I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

change: 
 words[i] = word.capitalize() 

into:
if word != word.upper() :
     words[i] = word.capitalize() 

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#27662

On 8/22/2012 10:46 AM, Rebelo wrote:

>> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
>> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word.

Unicode has two 'capital' concepts: 'uppercase' and 'titlecase'. They 
are the same for latin chars but not for all alphabets.

>> I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

No. It may or may not be easier.

> change:
>   words[i] = word.capitalize()
>
> into:
> if word != word.upper() :
>       words[i] = word.capitalize()

Still buggy
 >>> s = 'CamelCase'
 >>> if s != s.upper(): s = s.capitalize()

 >>> s
'Camelcase'

use "if not word[0].isupper:..."
or "if word[0].islower

This will still .capitalize() 'weirdWord' to 'Weirdword'.
If you do not want that, only change the first letter.

 >>> s = 'weirdWord'
 >>> if s[0].islower(): s = s[0].upper()+s[1:]

 >>> s
'WeirdWord'

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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#27641

> Let's move to Bug #2:
> 
>  2. How do I escape the words that are already in uppercase? For example:
> 
> 
> 
> The input file has this:
> 
> NASA
> 
> 
> 
> The script changes this to:
> 
> Nasa
> 
> 
> 
> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
> 
> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word. If not
> 
> do the processing? I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

change: 
 words[i] = word.capitalize() 

into:
if word != word.upper() :
     words[i] = word.capitalize() 

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