Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
Guido, do you have an opinion on whether to have str.title() handle embedded apostrophes, "you're" --> "You're" instead of "You'Re"? IMO, the problem comes-up often enough that people are looking for workarounds (i.e. string.capwords() was a failed hack created to handle the problem and django.titlecase() is a successful attempt at a workaround). I'm not worried about Antoines's comment that we can't change anything ever. I am concerned about his point (mentioned on IRC) that there are no context free solutions (the absolute right answer is hard). While the change would seem to always be helpful in an English context, in French the proper title casing of "l'argent" is "L'Argent". Then again, there are cases in French that don't work under either method (i.e. title casing Amaury Forgeot d'Arc ends-up capitalizing the D no matter what we do). Options: 1. Leave everything the same (rejecting requests for apostrophe handling and forever live with the likes of You'Re). 2. Handle embedded single apostrophes, fixing most cases in English, and wreaking havoc on the French (who are going to be ill-served under any scenario). 3. Add an optional argument to str.title() with a list of characters that will not trigger a transition. This lets people add apostrophes and hyphens and other characters of interest. Hyphens are hard because cases like mother-in-law should properly be converted to Mother-in_Law and hyphens get used in many odd ways. 4. Add a new string method for handling title case with embedded apostrophes but leaving the old version unchanged. My order of preferences is 2,4,3,1. ---------- assignee: rhettinger -> gvanrossum nosy: +gvanrossum _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7008> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
